By Natasha Livingstone Royal Correspondent
22:14 17 February 2024, Updated 23:35 17 February 2024
New attacks on the royal family in scathing books created by artificial intelligence were revealed last night by The Mail on Sunday.
Fake AI memoirs sold by Amazon included descriptions of how MI6 killed Diana in a ‘premeditated murder’ and claims that Kate Middleton had taken illegal drugs.
Last week, the internet giant came under fire after a newspaper investigation uncovered offensive AI books about King Charles’ cancer on the website, prompting Buckingham Palace to consult lawyers. .
All the books were later deleted, but Amazon has declined to say whether any author accounts were suspended or if the platform would take any additional steps to prevent the sale of such fake books.
Now the MoS has uncovered more AI books that contain offensive defamation of the royal family and appear to breach Amazon’s own content guidelines.
These books are created by AI software but appear with legitimate biographies.
Diana’s book has no identifiable author but claims to be part of a series called The Complete Guide Editions, which covers topics from D-Day to Barbie.
Former senior military intelligence officer Philip Ingram said: ‘It goes without saying that it is incendiary rubbish that MI6 killed Princess Diana.’
Another lousy book is Prince William Biography: A Fascinating Autobiography of the Future King. It invents outlandish lies about the Princess of Wales during her gap year studying in Florence.
The book was published on the website in May 2023 but has not been removed through Amazon’s ‘proactive’ procedures, which aim to ensure that its content guidelines are followed.
The third book – The Biography and Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Cause of Queen Elizabeth’s Death – was published the day after her death. Its AI-generated vocabulary includes hurtful lies.
Hours after MOS was contacted, Amazon removed the two books, but Prince William’s biography was still on sale at press time.
An Amazon spokesperson said: ‘We have content guidelines for which books can be listed for sale, including disallowing AI-generated content that disrupts the customer experience.’
He added that the firm has ‘proactive and reactive measures to review content’ and has removed a number of topics that ‘violated the guidelines’.
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