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The linked Reddit posts include other people seeing the same pattern, which seems to be to that the same AI-generated works are listed under many different slightly-differently-spelled author names, presumably to show up more in search ranks.



Forget whether it's true. We have here an essay that says, quite explicitly, "if I didn't have pictures of this, I would be called insane". It doesn't include any of the pictures. How does that happen? What's the right conclusion to draw from that?


There were a bunch of photos of the kindle in question showing dodgy book names and cover art?


And there are zero photos that show an author's name, which is the data point that's supposed to call the author of the piece's sanity into question.

Thousands upon thousands of real books exist with multiple cover art options.




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