01-05-2025
AI ‘book thieves' copy Holocaust survivor's memoir
An author who helped a Holocaust survivor write their memoir has lambasted 'book thieves' who used artificial intelligence to 'cream profit off the hard work of a 95-year-old who escaped the gas chambers'.
Kate Thompson, who co-wrote the bestselling A Mother's Promise: My True Story of Surviving Auschwitz and the Horrors of the Holocaust with Renee Salt, said the first AI-generated copy appeared on Amazon just days after the memoir's February release.
Thompson said the copy had been produced 'at a fraction of the cost, financially, physically, mentally and emotionally' compared with the original, which was the 'culmination of 18 months of exhaustive research and multiple drafts'.
While that first AI copy was removed from Amazon, another book, written by the apparently prolific Penny Pincher,
