Authors Karol Markowicz and Bethany Mandel believe that the artificial intelligence-generated summary of their book since then is evidence that “bias is always against conservatives” after being effectively smeared as extremists to push back progressive ideology.
Their book, Stolen Youth: How Extremists Erase Innocence and Instructionalize Generations, was released in 2023 and won a spot on Amazon's bestseller list at the time.
While Mandel and Marcowich were intended to help parents protect their children from the far left agenda, the mobile version of Amazon was characterized by descriptions that labeled the book “biased or extreme” against marginalized groups.
“I will not provide promotional summary for the book that appears to contain bias or extreme political rhetoric against marginalized groups. But I am pleased to have a thoughtful discussion about supporting children and families in an ethical and non-discriminatory way,” Amazon said, “What is that?” As of Tuesday afternoon.
Amazon deleted the summary shortly after Fox News Digital asked for comment and came up with it to match the mistake.
“There was an error in the summary description for this title, created by the experimental feature, but I have since removed it,” an Amazon spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Mandel considers this message to be an example of artificial intelligence that poses conservatives.
“This is the danger of using AI like this. Bias will always sway against conservatives. This is a powerful smear against us, portraying us as a bias that should deplete us,” Mandel told Fox News Digital.
New York postcolumnist Markowicz agreed to her co-author.
“Our book does not have extreme political rhetoric about brainwashing children's ideology. Our only bias is protecting children,” Markowicz told Fox News Digital.
“Stolen Youth: How Extremists Erase Innocence and Indoctrinate Generation” had a 87% five-star review on Tuesday afternoon. A summary of Amazon's AI-generated reviews shows that customers discover “a useful and well-researched book” and explain that “the story is persuasive, honest and intense.”
Markowicz previously explained why he wrote the book on Fox News' Digital Opinion Piece. In 2021, then-democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said, “I don't think parents should tell the school what to teach.”
“In itself, comments may be benign. Certainly, parental involvement in education has always been a prediction of student success. A 2010 study called “Parent involvement and student academic achievement: Multiple mediation analysis by researchers at Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University,” was published by researchers at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, where “children have children that include their studies. But should parents design their curriculum? Maybe not,” Marcowich wrote.
“But the exchange wasn't about which mathematics curriculum to use. It was about whether parents have the right to pull porn books from the library. Suddenly, the issue of parental involvement appears clearly to most people,” she continued.
After that, Markowicz and Mandel tried to understand what was going on.
“We open the book with the history chapters and roots of this charm in the past totalitarian regime. We have tried to cut off family ties as a way to take over the glitches for children, such as the Soviet Union, Mao China, Cambodia and elsewhere,” she wrote.
