AI Slop Knockoffs of Kevin Roose's Book Are on Amazon

22 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In a brief conversational segment from a YouTube video, Kevin Roose discusses a tip from a Canadian reader (credited to Dwight Newman) about low-quality, AI‑generated "slop" books that mimic his own work and are being sold on Amazon Canada. Roose expresses frustration that these knockoffs are undermining his sales and that Amazon is not taking sufficient action, contrasting the situation with how the platform more aggressively removes obvious counterfeit listings in other categories. The exchange highlights concerns about AI‑driven content spam, the challenges authors face in protecting their intellectual property, and the need for better platform enforcement.

You're steamed.
I'm steamed. So I got a note from a reader in Canada. Shout out to Dwight Newman. He said, hey, you might want to look at this. It looks like somebody is selling slop books of yours on Amazon Canada. And Casey, it's not good.
No?
No, it's not good. So
it doesn't meet your high standard for a slop book that is trying to steal sales from you?
And it seems like Amazon just does not care or does not know that this is going on on the scale it is because they're still not doing anything to prevent the proliferation of any AI-generated books. I think this is within their power to fix. Yeah, because I know that they fix it for other categories, right? Like if you upload an iPhone listing and it's not the actual iPhone, like if you're just selling some kind of cheap lookalike, they will take that down immediately.