When journalist and author Talia Lavin first searched online for her new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America , she expected to find the normal things that accompany a book the week of its release: a preorder link, the odd list, and maybe a review or two. But instead, she found at least five complete rip offs of her work on shopping retailer giant Amazon — almost all of them seemingly created with the help of generative AI.

“The book is a history of the last 50 years of the Christian right with a particular focus on family dynamics and child abuse in evangelical communities,” Lavin tells Rolling Stone . “All of the [fakes] used the phrase wild faith but some were biographies. One was an inspirational self help book which I found darkly funny. It wa

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