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Comment by nsypteras | Hacker News Reader

I'm pretty sure the ads displayed on my Kindle are all for AI generated children's books lately. It's actually kind of fun looking at them to find the AI generated artifacts (e.g little girl building snowman has three fingers, etc.) Not sure who's actually buying these things...

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I would be curious the age range for the book in question or the type. I am bifurcating books with illustrations and novels (pure text), not sure if thats the best terms but I hope it gets the idea across.

Even pre-AI lots of childrens book at the lower age range/illustration category are basically low effort junk, this is generally true for most/all books for new children. They use illustrations bought wholesales and copy and paste text into them.

The other day I saw an advert for a "course" that teaches you how to capitalize on the "AI gold rush" by using AI to write and sell ebooks. It's the new get-rich quick idea I guess

I know a relatively successful author and screenwriter. Said person is abondoning their current projects, because apparently their friend is very successful selling books on Amazon, produced with the help of AI. The friend will, apparently, teach them how they, too, can tap into this market.

This conversation over Christmas dinner set off so many red flags, that I could only bite my tongue and nod.

This pains me so much, I can't even imagine how that had to have felt :-(

I sure hope this blows over quickly.

Inaccurate finger counts are a staple of manmade children's material as well!

Maybe the AI learned that children prefer inaccurate fingers.

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