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Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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Having disabled Google's personalized ads, I did see many "get rich quick (now with AI" schemes that promoted the production of this kind of spam. I think the quickest and simplest way to at least lower the acceleration on this mass spam is for Google to actually vet their ads, especially non-English ones.

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Having disabled Google's personalized ads, I did see many "get rich quick (now with AI" schemes that promoted the production of this kind of spam. I think the quickest and simplest way to at least lower the acceleration on this mass spam is for Google to actually vet their ads, especially non-English ones.

I get a lot of this stuff on YouTube, only with higher production value. AI for automating anything related to get-rich-quick.

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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Not just books. I remember seeing a "movie" on Amazon (not sure if it was Prime or some other service I was subscribed to). It was called "how to pronounce 'Stranger Things'", and the total length was about 10 seconds. I'll leave the plot to your imagination.

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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Youtube is becoming flooded with influencers showing you how to do it and promising massive imaginary profits. Same for AI generated Etsy designs, copywriting gigs, and various other things.

Not just YouTube, but every social media platform seems to be spammed by it. I feel like I am seeing these stupid ads almost every hour now.

A ton of people jumping on the bandwagon promising insane profits from AI. But if you thought for more than 1 second, if they themselves could make this much profit why would they be trying to convince other people to do it.

The reality is they are likely the ones making any money by building up a following making these promises.

Re: Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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Youtube is becoming flooded with influencers showing you how to do it and promising massive imaginary profits. Same for AI generated Etsy designs, copywriting gigs, and various other things.

I get a kick out of people pushing the "Earn $5-$10k extra A WEEK with this one simple hustle!"

The hustle? Spam amazon affiliate links, lol. Of course the people pushing this never bother with pushing affiliate links, just trying to sell you the guide on how to do it.

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