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.

  • somefool@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honest questions: What worthwhile alternatives exist already? If there are none, what can be done? What can be built to improve discoverability of authors while moderating what is visible?

    • tanglisha [she/her]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Libraries and some bookstores are great about picking favorites and putting blurbs about them right on the shelf.

      Powell’s always has great recommendations, I’ve found lots of fantastic new reads there. I wish everyone had access to one in person, I love that store so much.

    • jmp242English
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      1 year ago

      I like to use goodreads, though that is still Amazon owned, it has more human curated lists and the like. I used to also use some of the subreddits to see what was recommended, I don’t know if lemmy yet has like a mystery book or sci fi book or whatever community.