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I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by VincentEvans »

manicennui wrote: post #142
VincentEvans wrote: post #128

Let me tell you how to buy a kindle book for my kid’s Kindle that is connected via a child account in “Amazon Household” to my Amazon account. (This opening sentence already signals how the rest of this will go). A child’s account can’t buy books - you have to do it for them. 1. I open Amazon app on my iphone and find the book - “This app does not support purchasing of this content”. 2. I open Kindle app on my iphone…

I'm pretty sure you can't buy Kindle books with Amazon's iOS apps because Apple wants a cut.

And yet I can buy entire contents of the amazon using the Amazon shopping app. Or Walmart app. Or Target app. Or Best Buy app.

Opening amazon.com via Safari on an iphone is a throwback and a very odd experience - I haven’t needed to use a mobile version of amazon.com in ages - i use the app for all my Amazon shopping.

And one other thing - I can’t stand Musk, but given my experience with Amazon in a world where WeChat exists - perhaps Musk has a chance with his X super app plan after all.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

crtified wrote: post #126
QuantumG wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smug dropout is smug.

I was aiming, albeit rather belatedly, for kinship, rather than smugness. But being socially ineffective = sometimes missing the mark, when it comes to conveying feelings, despite best efforts or intentions. I'll take your read under advisement. :)

I got your meaning from first reading. There's no smugness because your position isn't self-righteously or even voluntarily chosen. You've been thrust into a position on the side of the river where the flow is slower and therefore less shit drifts in, purely by good/bad luck.

I like my IT shit, but my major life joys come from my kids and sports and writing / thinking. If FAANG went poof tomorrow (and maybe be if I was a praying person, I'd pray for this daily) my life joys would be almost entirely unaffected.

It's a good perspective.

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Post by brewdad »

muzani wrote: post #124

If you can't beat them, join them. My pen name is now Tim Ferris, look forward to my upcoming books to be published in 2024: The 4-Hour Nap, The 4-Hour Romance, The 4-Hour Deep Work

Hi Tim. You can call me Stephen King. My latest books, Care-E and CooJoe will be out this fall. I.T. Should be available by next spring.

Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by Nition »

The other day there was a thread here about the Earthsea books where some people posted their favourite quotes from the series.

I saw that one of the quotes wasn't actually from the series and asked the user if they'd actually used an LLM to generate it. They confirmed that they had. It would have been easy to miss that it wasn't real. Eventually their comments got flagged (not by me) and hidden, but probably only due to me calling it out.

It does make me a little concerned about the future.

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Post by HWR_14 »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #69
nomat wrote: post #44

I think this is the future of computers for people. they will open their phone and say "hey siri get this book or computer or car" and the browser will show them a bunch of made up products generated by an AI and they'll get the product drop shipped from china and it'll be a shitty counterfeit just like the $5 256GB USB drives. But they won't know because when you look for reviews, the review websites will also be ge…

Is it not the case that AI is pretty good at detecting AI generated content?

If so, it's only for one generation, until they add "tricks current AI detection" as a metric for the next training.

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Post by RajT88 »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #118
labster wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We’re in a race to the bottom. There’s no way a company selling legitimate products will be able to compete or grow a customer base in the AI future, because we’ll be swimming in garbage.

We swim in garbage already (looking at amazon) but bhphoto and sweetwater still exist.

Newegg as well.

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Post by ke88y »

imgabe wrote: post #49
ke88y wrote: post #46

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> Of course the actual entity posting the fraudulent books are probably overseas somewhere Amazon is an international, but is certainly bound by the laws of the United States of America. At least the ones it can't buy itself out of. "I didn't know" isn't an affirmative defense if your employees are on the record saying they know.

I think Amazon wouldn't say they didn't know, but that it's not their responsibility. For example if Random House published a book that libeled someone, and Amazon sold it, you would sue Random House and the author for libel, not Amazon. Likewise, Amazon would tell you to go sue the publisher, who is probably judgement-proof in some way.

Which would obviously be a load of Reddit-quality IANAL bullshit… yeah?

I mean, really, you cannot lie about who authored books you’re selling. Especially if the author is well known and their reputation has value. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37043061 has a reasonable if blunt assessment. But, honestly, this is obvious to everyone who isn’t customer obsessed ;)

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Post by shinycode »

owlninja wrote: post #57
kneebonian wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think reddit is genuine human content I have same bad news for you buddy.

I believe the majority of it is, what do you have that says otherwise?

Some people commented here on HN they created bots that played along as humans by answering coherent comments on random posts to train their AI with the ability to argue and dig into the discussion. There’s a thin line between this and fake posts

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Post by skydhash »

UtopiaPunk wrote: post #121
giantg2 wrote: post #110

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Plenty of niche, premium, or physical stores out there. People might need to pay a little more for it, but they do exist. Not everyone buys everything from the same super stores.

What are some of your favorites (tech or otherwise)?

Keyboardio

Roost Stand

Accessories4less

Svsound

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