"The new wave of artificial intelligence-fuelled publishing fraud that began saturating global markets last year lifts directly from the lonely hearts playbook. Rogue publishing schemes most operating out of south Asia, the Philippines and Nigeria have become the new romance scams, substituting the promise of true love for the dream of literary recognition."
"It wasn't vacuous adulation that hooked him but the political and moral significance the solicitations attributed to his work. The pitches argued that his years of emotional investment deserved a global audience befitting a historically vital narrative; that an advanced marketing campaign would deliver his message to the world."
Jon Cocks, a retired South Australian teacher, spent eight years writing Angel of Aleppo, a historical novel inspired by his wife's grandmother's experience surviving the Armenian genocide. His emotional investment in the project made him vulnerable to AI-fuelled publishing fraud schemes operating from South Asia, the Philippines, and Nigeria. These scams exploit authors by promising literary recognition and global audiences for historically significant work, rather than romantic promises like traditional romance scams. Cocks lost nearly A$10,000 to these fraudulent schemes. Literary deception is not new, with historical examples including forged papal letters and fake celebrity autobiographies, but modern AI-powered publishing fraud represents a new wave targeting vulnerable authors.
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