By Natasha Livingstone Royal Correspondent
22:14 17 Feb 2024, updated 23:35 17 Feb 2024
New attacks on the Royal Family in abhorrent books created by artificial intelligence were last night uncovered by The Mail on Sunday.
The bogus AI memoirs sold by Amazon included descriptions of how MI6 killed Diana in a ‘premeditated murder’ and claims that Kate Middleton took illegal drugs.
Last week, the internet giant came under fire after an investigation by this newspaper exposed offensive AI books about King Charles’s cancer being sold on the website, driving an infuriated Buckingham Palace to consult lawyers.
All the books were later deleted, but Amazon has refused to reveal if any of the authors’ accounts were suspended or if the platform would take any additional measures to stop the sale of such fake books.
Now the MoS has uncovered further AI books that contain offensive slanders about the Royal Family and appear to breach Amazon’s own content guidelines.
The books are concocted by AI software but appear alongside legitimate biographies.
The Diana book has no identifiable author but claims to be part of a series called The Complete Guide Editions that 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 sham book is Prince William Biography: A Captivating Autobiography Of The Future King. It invents outlandish falsehoods about the Princess of Wales during her gap year studying in Florence.
The book appeared on the website in May 2023 but has not been removed by Amazon’s ‘proactive’ procedures, which are meant to ensure that its content guidelines are followed.
A third book – The Biography And Death Of Queen Elizabeth II: What Caused The Death Of Queen Elizabeth – was published the day after her death. Among its AI-generated words are hurtful lies.
Hours after being contacted by the MoS, Amazon removed two of the books, but at the time of going to press the Prince William biography was still on sale.
An Amazon spokesman said: ‘We have content guidelines governing which books may be listed for sale, including not allowing AI-generated content that creates a poor customer experience.’
They added that the firm has ‘proactive and reactive measures to evaluate content’ and it had removed a number of titles that ‘violated guidelines’.
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