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@cR0w If it was generated by an LLM, then my belief in their non-sapience is shaken: also, it would mean we've found a way to automate creative madness.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116019150707798109

Is this AI generated? If so, whoever trained it has accidentally stumbled on a whole new style …

(Also, I would not drink those lattes: they're bound to be full of half-cooked hippo arse leeches: https://www.wired.com/2015/08/absurd-creature-of-the-week-hippo-butt-leech-placobdelloides-jaegerskioeldi/ )

@robryk Yes. But also: KU gives you up to 20 loans simultaneously, no minimum/maximum duration, for a flat $10 a month. So readers who don't want slop and accidentally get slop may idly flip pages before they hit the "return to KU" button and try a different book. Which is the grifter's pay-off. Publishing lots of titles under many names simply games the rec algorithm (which includes some random new titles along with some from popular authors).

@mms AI is not a threat to real writers. The same problems apply as always, with the same solution: get an agent, get a trad publishing deal, get marketed. Only instead of starting out via short fiction in the pulps/monthly magazines, there are other on-ramps; web serials, patreons, self-pub with web serials/patreons to generate paying customers, then self-pub sales to get big agent/publisher attention (if you want them).

It's a business, same as it's always been. And this is just another scam.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/116039970902809253

Reminder that this isn't "disrupting" the romance industry; it's' a spammer's grift targeting Amazon's payment plan for Kindle Unlimited loans, which pays per page read. The perp's ebooks actually average less than 250 loans/sales per book, 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than a real human-written book. (It would probably also be possible to use a bot to generate accounts on amazon to defraud KU this way, like click-fraud in google/FB ads a decade ago.)