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Personal favorite that I've been served: "Pills From Tree" .. "What if the trees in your garden prescribe pulls to solve your problems"

On one hand .. you have my attention. On the other .. what the actual fuck?

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How great and mysterious is comedy, this would be way less funnier if it was called Pills From THE Tree. "Pills From Tree" makes me chuckle.

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I also received this ad!

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This liquefied my brain thank you

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Excited for larger and larger swaths of the internet to be functionally unusable due to AI!

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As a new author I can tell you straight, it doesnt matter what masterpeice you write today, it will be lost on page 60 of the search results and if you dont invest as much time and money in marketing you may as well reside to the fact it is just friends and familiy who will read it. AI will happily read a hundred novels and regurgitate a thousand variations in a few minutes, welcome to hell.

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You will be delighted to learn that Using Mind Reading for Good is available on Kindle here for the low low price of $1.99, along with the low, low number of stars (1) from a low, low number of readers (1). Was that you? Anyway, if you are willing to leave off the Y in her/it's name, you can also get it in India and Italy--countries who share an opening letter that is also a sign in some fonts for the low, low number of 1.

But this thing is listed as "perfect for beginning and early readers." Your kindle doesn't think you are dumb. It thinks your pre-toddler is a genius.

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I've seen lots of BEDTIME STORY, but the slop with covers that were clearly generated by an AI prompted to make a book cover with lots of "readable" "text" are the most haunting to me. I've been seeing quality books with taglines like "Sftgix of the pogræess and velljing bokdj aidir them toward sellf-improvement and success." By Whuk Sinte and Japey Addenrnn, no less!

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As a recent Kindle owner myself, I think you'll be pleasantly confounded to know that I, someone who a) does not have children, b) has not searched for anything similar on Amazon's website and c) has never even bought a book off the Kindle store (shoutout to Anna's Archive + my public library card) have also been served these ads non-stop!!!!!!!

I finally broke and paid the $20 fee to remove the ads. After the guilt eventually subsided, I've decided it was worth it.

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There's only one winner - Amazon itself.

They tricked you into paying $20 fee, and somehow, you are happy for it.

You are a perfect customer =)

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bite me

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I’m oddly gratified to learn that I’m not the only one taking photos of the weird AI book ads on my Kindle’s Lock Screen. But now I’m realizing that mine also appeared shortly after I had a baby…

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Wow this is SO validating. I recently have started manically swiping up on my kindles lock page in absolute HORROR every time I ride the subway. No WAY am I going to let anyone think those are the covers of the books I’m reading

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Leah!! "I don’t know. I’m not a virgin. As I said, I have a child."

Brutal.

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One more reason to prefer paper books! The companies can’t randomly change the words and flood them with AI generated slop

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May I introduce you to a new level of hell, named "on-demand book printing services"? How long will you still be safe?

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On demand book-printing can't change the words in the books on my own shelf

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Still, this requires the same manual validation from you. So, you don't allow some AI generated crap to "jump on your own shelf".

As I see it, most of the authors will be using AI to some degree for writing their books. And it's only a matter of time until your book shelf becomes "50% AI generated paper shelf"

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WTF. Multiply that 1000000x and we should reach the singularity of stupidity in no time.

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> As the very editor of this Substack texted me, “If you didn’t have pics of this, I would think you were schizophrenic.”

That does make sense.

Speaking of which, it would be nice if we could see those pictures too. None of the pictures in the piece display an author's name.

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I got an ad for "Flightf Hope" and took a picture. I was surprised they let it through with the weird AI typo.

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My kindle is so old that it doesn’t have this feature, so glad for the inflation in Brazil that made kindled more expensive, now I don’t have to see AI ads lol

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So, while AI is almost certainly involved in the translation, I think a lot of this stuff is probably Chinese web fiction that is being repurposed and dumped on Kindle. This happens a lot, especially with books you can find on the Chinese equivalent of Webnovel.

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