{"id":248607,"date":"2025-07-08T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248607\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:59:11","slug":"amazon-removes-ai-biographies-of-snp-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248607\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon removes AI biographies of SNP politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Amazon spokesperson said: &#8220;We have content guidelines governing which books can be listed for sale, and we have proactive and reactive methods that help us detect content that violates our guidelines, whether AI-generated or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We invest significant time and resources to ensure our guidelines are followed, and remove books that do not adhere to those guidelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An SNP spokesperson said none of the books were accredited biographies of Swinney, Yousaf or Sturgeon and that &#8220;many of the claims&#8221; in them were untrue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;People should be aware of the risk of misinformation and disinformation online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both the Scottish and UK governments have spoken of the positive impact AI technology could have on efforts to improve public services &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c307zgz3enpo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as the NHS<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, writers and publishers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly4p3wz3l3o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed fears<\/a> about the impact of generative AI programs, such as ChatGPT, on the creation of new literature and books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And with Scottish Parliament elections looming in May 2026, there have also been warnings about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-68295845\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI fuelling disinformation<\/a> potentially being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-67518511\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used to disrupt elections<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amazon spokesperson said: &#8220;We have content guidelines governing which books can be listed for sale, and we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114818918943225275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}