Amount of people??

 You mean...like this?

Another mistake that I hear native speakers of English make on the radio and TV is this: amount of people. 

"Amount" is a word that is used with things you can't count, such as 'rice'. You don't go into a Chinese restaurant and say, "I'd like the sweet and sour pork with 1,299 rices." Rice has no plural. Neither does furniture or money. Or a wealth of other uncountable nouns such as sand, knowledge, information, accommodation (whatever the Americans say), motivation and courage. (If you want more information on uncountable nouns, go here: https://ieltsliz.com/uncountable-nouns-word-list/).

If you can't count it, can't make a noun plural out of it, then you use all the words that go with uncountable nouns such as much, less and amount.

People, on the other hand, are countable. One person, two people. You'd ask, "How many people came to your birthday party?" and not, "How much people came?" If you can get that right, then how can you possibly use 'amount' and not 'number' when talking about people?

A large number of people ate a large amount of rice.
How many people ate how much rice?

Every time I hear the phrase "a large amount of people", I see a whole mountain of people all piled higgledy-piggledy on each other - just like a mound of rice in a bowl.

That's an "amount of people". Get it right, for heaven's sake. If you can't get simple English grammar right, what else can't you get right? Facts?