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>> Amazon has become a marketplace for AI-produced tomes that are being passed off as having been written by humans, with travel books among the popular categor
by sandworm101 2y ago
>> Amazon has become a marketplace for AI-produced tomes that are being passed off as having been written by humans, with travel books among the popular categories for fake work.
Yet another source of horribleness from Amazon's book department. I recently wanted to buy a softcover copy of Lovecraft's collected works. I know it's out of copyright but I want a book I can hold. What came was junk, poorly scanned to the point of having extra page numbers stolen from the original. This is what Amazon does with books. No matter how much or little you pay, the delivered book will somehow not be what you wanted.
- burningChrome 2y agoI had a similar experience. My only copy of the "The Dirt" the autobiography of Motley Crue. It was a hard cover that my ex pilfered from me when we broke up. I went on Amazon to get it replaced. Ordered a soft cover because it was significantly less expensive. What came was exactly the same thing. I think the cover was legit, but the contents were so poorly photocopied, you could see the shadows on the corners of many of the pages where they were copied. Many of the pages were just flat out crooked to boot. It was comical the seller passed this off as legit. It was the last straw for me ordering things off of Amazon. Now I try and order stuff directly from the manufacturer so I know for sure it's legit. I'm now comfortable paying more for stuff knowing that's it legit than rolling the dice on Amazon and getting a fake or counterfeit item.