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Yeah this is exactly the reason. A fake publishing house using AI would be trying to publish under their one name anyway.
If they made fake accounts as fake authors then they could be identified by their banking info anyway.
It would be so costly and risky to set up enough bank accounts under assumed names in order to collect a profit from spraying junk across Amazon that it probably wouldn’t be attempted more than a handful of times.
Major, reputable publishers will, of course, have “enterprise” accounts with exceptions to the rule applied.
I thought people who read books were smart, where the hell was the two seconds of critical thinking it would have taken to realize this? Was this meme a desperate attempt to sway public opinion against Amazon’s supposedly unreasonable and oppressive policy?