So not news
Springer Nature published what it claims is the first machine-generated book from an academic publisher
SN are really going out on a limb with that final qualification. "Oh, look, we've finally caught up to what Phillip Parker has been doing for twelve years." How terribly exciting.
It's much harder to create something that a human reader finds valuable
ICON Group et alia say otherwise. So do the less-overt organizations that deal in machine-generated bogus product reviews and the like. Plenty of people have made plenty of money selling machine-generated text.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
