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Looks like click farms have expanded into book publishing. The tech revolution of diminishing standards seems to be progressing steadily. You can now ride in your Cruise self-driving car that drives slow and stops in awkward places, while reading a soulless, irrelevant book and look up inaccurate info in Bing. The future really is never as you picture it.

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AI pollution is no longer the pollution of the future, it is the pollution of today

I read that sentence in the voice of a dystopian future cartoon that is forcefully cheerful.

This has been going on for a while. They refer to it (themselves) as low-content publishing and it's popular among the same crowd as the content marketing/low-content website ad farms. Before ChatGPT people used tools like Writter AI and Jarvis AI (now Jasper AI), but the newer models are much better and incorporate their own, possibly incorrect, knowledge.

So, Grandma got my little monster a "custom book" recently. It's got monster's name, and friend's name, and grandma's name of course.

It's so awful, that it's really hard to believe that it's just a poor translation. It really only makes sense if it was written by an AI. But I question why... It's just not that hard to write a 14 page story about unicorns and special talents.

It seems like more work to have an AI spit it out. It's just variable names for CHILD, FRIEND1, FRIEND2, etc. So, I think it was AI written, but nothing about it makes sense.

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