It’s partly AI, partly a get-rich-quick scheme, and entirely bad for confused consumers.

I also highly recommend Dan Olson’s documentary that gets a shout-out in the article, although - at the time the documentary was made - AI had not been a big factor in the grift yet.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    And that garbage gets served as ads to the ad-sponsored lockscreens of certain Kindle readers. You can tell they’re shit tier AI-generated books by the titles alone. They sound like Isekai anime.

    Its shit like “Circus Poems of the Universe: please enjoy our poetry - Bedtime stories for Children and Adults”.