AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists
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Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited bestseller list was full of books with titles like “Apricot bar code architecture” and “Jessica’s Attention” earlier this week.

My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.

  • sab@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If this indeed breaks Amazon then at least that is one silver lining of AI. It’s a shame indie authors are losing their platform, but they’ll find another.

    • festus@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think these particular books are even generated by large language models - from the examples the content is just meaningless nonsense.

      • sab@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        There’s even a federated alternative, BookWyrm!

        …I guess these days the Fediverse is my hammer of choice, and every problem with the internet is a nail.

        • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
          0·
          1 year ago

          Unfortunately it is extremely sparse vs goodreads. Maybe someday it will catch up, but I really didn’t find it useful right now. Then again I am def a lurker on goodreads so where I read lists and reviews from doesn’t matter that much.

          • Mummelpuffin@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I guess what I don’t get is what were people using GoodReads for? Because I’m using BookWyrm to just track what I already wanted to read and use the review system as a way to sum up books for myself.