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I was browsing Amazon and I found one “author” with over 100 published in the last 12 months. And they weren’t cheap either. Most were $50 or more for the paperback version.

It really put a sour taste in my mouth. At that volume (2 books per week) you’d think Amazon could identify and label that it’s AI generated.

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Not sure why this got downvoted. The amount of book slop on Amazon these days is staggering. It has completely changed my experience of shopping for books on Amazon and it's for the worse.

I can think of 2 reasons. First, the 100 books in a year was entirely possible in the pulp fiction genre even 20 years ago. If you're mass producing crap that people binge read on their daily train commute, you can write it quickly as they don't much care about the quality. Secondly, Amazon being over run with book slop isn't a new phenomena. As soon as print on demand became a thing 15+ years ago, people starting filling Amazon with junk, either poor copies of other people's books or even just books containing nothing but wikipedia entries. The model had so low a bar to entry, that even if they only sold a couple of each title it was worth their time, but it made Amazon awful to use as a customer trying to browse for a book that might be interesting.

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