"They could do permanent damage to childhood literacy." This is fear mongering nonsense. Poorly written kids books is nothing new. The only difference now with

"They could do permanent damage to childhood literacy." This is fear mongering nonsense. Poorly written kids books is nothing new. The only difference now with genAI is the sheer volume, but are already way more books than could be effectively curated, so how different is it? "My worry here is that the parents who fall for these books are likely to be overworked, with low budgets and little free time to vet purchases." How noble of this guy to cape up for these overworked imaginary parents who are incapable of not buying crap books from the internet. After all, they are poor, so therefore obviously lack good judgement. /s