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 (DIR) Post #B6G3bUWhvVBMzKBAAa by TechTangents@dialup.space
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       Welcome to our future. My grandmother bought a book on Amazon a few days ago and this is what arrived. My BS radar went off like crazy as soon as I saw it.This is an almost completely AI generated book, printed on demand, and sold as a physical product.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6G3baBItzcuWgD9do by TechTangents@dialup.space
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       This is the first thing you see when you open it. A kerning nightmare followed by three lines that all just reiterate what the "book" is about, quantity without quality is the name of the game here. There is a reason I'm not saying this is 100% AI generated yet that I will get to in a moment.It is obviously full of AI garbage like this generated image of a forest full of balls of yarn with I presume the grim reaper waiting at the end of the path to claim more souls to fill the slop machine
       
 (DIR) Post #B6G3bdCpeldDuHwuwK by TechTangents@dialup.space
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       After that is a table of contents, sorry, table of "content". There are of course, no page numbers in the book so it is completely useless.I think this is more to do with how amazon publishing works. It's full of layout errors like titles on the page before subject, more kerning issues, and the empty square glyph in the bullet list because the print font didn't have the character needed.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6G3bi6zPuvf7cFp1k by TechTangents@dialup.space
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       But here is the crux of the issue. This whole book contains ONE pattern spread over 4 pages. It's the super faint text because they didn't change the color before printing in monochrome.It's also surrounded bye "markdown CopyEdit", I've never used ChatGPT/any-LLM but I'm guessing this is a copy paste error from the prompt.I think they stole a pattern from someone and then generated a book around it. The rest of the ENTIRE BOOK after this just just waffling on nonsense.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6G3blC3xVlmgDePqq by TechTangents@dialup.space
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       It also repeats information, the copy/pasted pattern defines the shorthand, and earlier in the book the LLM built a whole table out of that. Everything else in it just reads like the life story you got before the recipe you were looking for online, completely pointless padding.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6G3bnlEPj5cds7Wwi by TechTangents@dialup.space
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       This is a waste of compute, a waste of energy, a waste of physical materials, a waste of transportation, and a waste of money. My grandmother got a refund. But think of how many people won't, on an unlimited scale across genres. The amateur end of this this and many other hobbies will be choked out by garbage.I don't have call to action for this, I have no idea what we can do other than educate those around us to make individual choices to not engage with deluge of slop around us.