{"slug": "63-of-religious-books-on-amazon-are-likely-ai-written-study-finds", "title": "63% of Religious Books on Amazon Are Likely AI-Written, Study Finds", "summary": "A study by AI detection firm Originality.ai found that 63% of 2,034 religious books sampled on Amazon were likely AI-written, with witchcraft books having the highest rate at 78%, followed by Hinduism at 76% and Taoism at 74%. The report, released Wednesday, flagged 1,272 books as likely AI-generated across 14 categories, but author Michael Fraiman cautioned that the results indicate likelihood, not proof.", "body_md": "#### In brief\n\n- Originality.ai flagged 1,272 of 2,034 religious books analyzed on Amazon, or 63%, as likely AI-written.\n- Witchcraft had the highest rate at 78%, followed by Hinduism at 76% and Taoism at 74%.\n- The study flagged 53% of fact-checkable claims in witchcraft books as potentially false.\n\nNearly two-thirds of religious books sampled on Amazon were likely written by artificial intelligence, according to a new study of more than 2,000 recently published titles.\n\nIn a [report](https://originality.ai/blog/religious-books-on-amazon-study) released Wednesday, AI detection firm Originality.ai flagged 1,272 of 2,034 books, or 63%, as likely AI-written across 14 religious and belief categories.\n\nWitchcraft had the highest rate, with 78% of books sampled from Amazon's Wicca, Witchcraft & Paganism category classified as likely AI-written. The titles covered subjects including healing crystals, herbal remedies, and cleansing \"negative energies.\" According to report author Michael Fraiman, many of the [witchcraft](https://decrypt.co/230135/how-blockchain-and-ai-are-recasting-ancient-occult-practices) books focused on those subjects.\n\n“One can picture the ideal customer as someone looking for solutions to heal themselves, improve their mental health, or ‘detox' from commonplace chemicals and drugs,” Fraiman told *Decrypt.* “These Wiccan books can address these concerns without being held to any scientific standard.”\n\nHinduism ranked second at 76%, followed by Taoism at 74%, with Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity, and Judaism falling in between. Mormonism came in at 42%, atheism at 40%, and Satanism at 22%. Researchers cautioned that sample sizes varied significantly between categories.\n\nFraiman said researchers analyzed book descriptions, author bios, and samples, classifying text that scored 50 or higher as \"Likely AI.\" He cautioned, however, that the results indicate likelihood, not proof.\n\n“We don't make claims to certainty about whether books are definitively AI-written,” he said. “Our model determines the likelihood that something was AI-written to a degree of certainty.”\n\nFraiman noted that researchers also spot-checked books flagged as likely AI-generated.\n\n“By this point, our research team can tell the difference between likely AI-written content and human-written content,” he added.\n\nWhile Fraiman expressed confidence in the findings, AI detectors have produced false positives and conflicting results.\n\nIn October 2024, a [test](https://decrypt.co/286121/ai-detectors-fail-reliability-risks) of four AI detectors produced conflicting results when analyzing the U.S. Declaration of Independence. ZeroGPT found the text to be 97.93% AI-generated, while QuillBot found it entirely human-written and GPTZero gave it an 89% probability of being human-written.\n\nMore recently, in March, Colombia's Supreme Court [rejected](https://decrypt.co/359869/colombian-court-rejects-appeal-for-ai-writing-then-gets-flagged-by-its-own-ai-detector) a legal filing after detectors flagged it as AI-generated. When an attorney submitted the court's ruling to the same detector, it was rated 93% AI-generated.\n\nAmazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment by *Decrypt*.\n\n\"Amazon is aware of how common AI-written content is on their platform, and uses the honour system for authors to self-identify their work as AI-written,\" he said, adding that the company did not share its findings with Amazon. \"We have no data on how many authors actually disclose that.\"\n\nThe use of physical books to train AI has also drawn [scrutiny](https://decrypt.co/374646/ai-book-burning-companies-destroying-millions-books-chatbots) as developers buy millions of titles, strip them apart, scan their pages into training datasets, and discard the originals.\n\nIn August, an [investigation ](https://decrypt.co/375912/rare-books-amazon-ai-scanned-destroyed)tracked a shipment of rare books to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, where workers cut off their bindings and scanned the pages for AI training data. Amazon confirmed that it purchases books through commercial channels for the operation.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/63-of-religious-books-on-amazon-are-likely-ai-written-study-finds", "canonical_source": "https://decrypt.co/376295/religious-books-amazon-ai-written-study", "published_at": "2026-08-23 16:31:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-23 16:42:39.497602+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Originality.ai", "Amazon", "Michael Fraiman", "Decrypt"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/63-of-religious-books-on-amazon-are-likely-ai-written-study-finds", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/63-of-religious-books-on-amazon-are-likely-ai-written-study-finds.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/63-of-religious-books-on-amazon-are-likely-ai-written-study-finds.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/63-of-religious-books-on-amazon-are-likely-ai-written-study-finds.jsonld"}}