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jon crunktian

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Amazon's Kindles are being flooded with ads for garbage-tier AI-generated books... seems like some combination of bad actors gaming its algorithm and Amazon not caring or conducting basic scrutiny

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Dr Procrastibaker's avatar Dr Procrastibaker @drtwillett.bsky.social
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Gaaaaah

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m o c h y's avatar m o c h y @mochy.bsky.social
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This is the Amazon way, always has been

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Timothy Burke's avatar Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social
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Amazon basically feels like a huge weird ruin full of digital ghosts and monsters now. Like, if you went to the corporate HQ, you feel almost as if there wouldn't be anybody going in or out, and there's nobody even to notice something like this, let alone try to stop it.

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Cat Randall's avatar Cat Randall @catrandall.bsky.social
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I found this the other day and reported it. Chat GPT text. One reviewer also called it out for being AI. It's also obviously not a licensed work. Still available for sale as of this morning.

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Heather Trails's avatar Heather Trails @heathertrails.bsky.social
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It's pretty fucked that the lock screen is showing ads to begin with.

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Anthrodiva's avatar Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social
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I frickin KNEW IT. I have been thinking that there was a bunch of AI generated genre books out there for at least two years. More like four. Since the pandemic, really, is when it ticked up for me.

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Fernando Sacchetto 's avatar Fernando Sacchetto @lynxcat.bsky.social
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I noticed this trend, thought it was just really boring, generic books made by people

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Complete Travisty's avatar Complete Travisty @completetravisty.bsky.social
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This has been the best one I've seen so far. And by "best" I mean "worst." And by "worst" I mean made me want to snap my Kindle in half

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mxhrad's avatar mxhrad @mxhrad.bsky.social
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Glad I never bought a kindle. I still get real books. I outright own them and I don’t get ads when reading them.

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