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Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook
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#62I forgot why I had a pdf of your cookbook, have you at some point gave this out for free?
It's still free on itch.io
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#63I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.
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#65My guess would be this is an overzealous AI-generated content detector. Amazon has been flooded with low quality AI generated books in the past ~year, and has been removing a lot of it. My guess would be they're still tweaking their algorithms as folks generating books change their tactics. Hopefully a human will respond soon!
> Hopefully a human will respond soon I wonder how quick the transition of HITL (Human in the loop) to HOOTL will be.
There will always be a 'request manual review' button.
It'll go to a call centre in the third world where workers are expected to perform a review every 5 seconds.
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Overly aggressive denials of simple requests ("please use another word") just make me wonder why you are so upset about it? Blacklist/whitelist DO reinforce the notion that black = bad and white = good, so what's the deal with using a different word? I truly don't understand why people would get upset by simple requests like that.
I think Niemöller said it best:
> First they came for the n-word...
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Sometimes the merchant will switch a product with reviews with a different product. So it looks like it has 1,000 reviews but in reality most reviews are for something else.
And then you have the ugly stuff; I remember reading a paper (cannot find it now, though) about fraud rigs through which people can buy fraudsters to promote their products and trash their competitors' products. With AI, that kind of stuff will surely accelerate.
> With AI, that kind of stuff will surely accelerate.
It'll become another war of attrition, like other forms of spam & anti-spam.
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If I see you using allowlist (and denylist?), I promise not to correct you. That way we can all just rub along peacefully. (Edit: flagged? Jeez. I upvoted you).
For the record I didn't flag you. However your point is null and void.
Sorry, I didn't think you did. I didn't think you should have been flagged.
Look, I don't think you're wrong, I just think going around correcting each other's language is an exhausting distraction from things that matter. Normally that kind of microaggression would have been water off a duck's back. I'm just having an off day and feeling sarcastic. Apologies.
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For the record I didn't flag you. However your point is null and void.
Sorry, I didn't think you did. I didn't think you should have been flagged. Look, I don't think you're wrong , I just think going around correcting each other's language is an exhausting distraction from things that matter. Normally that kind of microaggression would have been water off a duck's back. I'm just having an off day and feeling sarcastic. Apologies.
Fair enough, I do see your point .. I just figure there are a lot of small things we can all do that cost virtually nothing that can help make the world a bit more equitable.
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Maybe in the USA, but over here, many book stores are a lot better at selling books (both on- and offline) than Amazon
I read a lot of books. It's pretty much my main source of entertainment. Nobody else came up with something like Kindle Unlimited where you pay a flat fee and read as much as you want instantly. There's entire genres that only exist on amazon that will never appear in a bookstore.
You are describing a library. Those have been around for quite a while.
Nowadays, many do have online offers where you can "borrow" e-books.
Of course, any library's catalogue is probably smaller than Amazons, but they usually are quite up-to-date with mainstream stuff and have more than you could ever hope to read in any case.
Plus you get to have a warm fuzzy feeling for supporting an institution that is really good for your local community :)