‘My identity has been stolen to produce fake AI-generated books in my name’

Using the pen name Sam Blake, Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin is one of Ireland’s bestselling thriller writers. But she was shocked to discover that bogus Sam Blake novels, likely to be generated by AI, are for sale on Amazon

We all feel sick when our credit card gets scammed or we realise we’ve visited a fake website. Imagine discovering that your identity has been hijacked and someone is trying to trade off your name.

This is what happened when a reader in Australia got in touch to say that they’d had a notification from Amazon that Sam Blake (that’s me) had written a dark romantasy novel, the first of a trilogy.

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