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.

  • megopie@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The goal for most of the investors in this tech is going to be to crow bar large language model nonsense in to every corner of the internet. At a certain point I can’t help but wonder if they are actively trying to ruin it.

    • Hypx@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The goal is really to create spambots either for marketing products or to create an impression of popularity. The problem is that it becomes too obvious so they end up taking down whole platforms.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      There is no way a modern LLM wrote this stuff. Maybe a medium language model, or a really old LLM. It reads better than a Markov chain’s work, I guess.