Google’s book service has started indexing low-quality books, which may impact how the Ngram language tracking tool works.
The book service is one of the most important search engine services, as it helps in providing indexing for published materials and has become essential for academics.
Reports indicate that Google’s book service contains many books that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence.
A report conducted an inquiry in Google Books service using the term “since my last data update,” which is used by smart bots in chat applications such as ChatGPT to inform you that there are time constraints on the data they can access.
You can search for books in the vast search service using specific phrases or terms, where the service usually displays written works containing those phrases.
The report revealed that most of the books reviewed on the first pages of the search dealt with the topic of artificial intelligence, despite the presence of some books unrelated to technology that seem to be about artificial intelligence.
The report mentioned that the books found appear to be taken from Wikipedia articles, such as the phrase “since my last data update.”
These books written with artificial intelligence technology are available for purchase on Amazon’s website and in other retail stores.
Other books that covered topics like Twitter have information dating back to 2021 when some artificial intelligence patterns obtained training data at that time.
Google Books service represents most of the data that supports Ngram, a research tool that analyzes the evolution of language over time by monitoring its usage in written texts.
Google’s book service scanned written works dating back to the 16th century and indexed them, updating Ngram data that was last referenced in 2019.
The Ngram tool is not entirely perfect, however, many linguists and academics benefit from using it to gather research data.
Google pointed out that new works in its book service do not currently appear in Ngram results, but they may show up in future data updates.
The company stated that it continues to evaluate its strategy in line with the evolving world of book publishing, without indicating the removal of these results from the service.
