Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks, often a result of keyword scrapers finding trending topics, and then so-called publishers using AI and cheap ghostwriters to generate books. "If, as they used to say, everyone has a book in them, AI has created a world where tech utopianists dream openly about excising the human part of writing a book — any amount of artistry or craft or even just sheer effort — and replacing it with machine-generated streams of text," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's her story about the underbelly of online self-publishing.
@FallsMom It seems like these "publishers" are taking advantage of the fact that a lot of people don't pay attention while they're shopping on Amazon — so they think they're buying Kara Swisher's autobiography but they're actually buying a biography of her by three ghostwriters and an AI in a long overcoat. There are also instances where "publishers" publish AI-generated books under the names of existing authors. You can read more about that here: https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/
@FallsMom There can be different reasons. For example, I buy books because my library has only French language ones and I read in different languages. @CultureDesk
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