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It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited

AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b774/ai-generated-books-of-nonsense-are-all-over-amazons-bestseller-lists

Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited bestseller list was full of books with titles like “Apricot bar code architecture” and “Jessica’s Attention” earlier this week.

My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.

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threeio

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I had to pull my kindle unlimited membership… it’s just a pile of crap.

aport

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I had kindle unlimited a decade ago and it was decent. Lots of good sci-fi and fantasy.

Then overnight the entire catalog became "shape shifting billionaire stepbrother bear" and other trash. It's like browsing your spam folder.

doctortofu

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So like the rest of Amazon then? Never used kindle, but Amazon for physical goods has been a dumpster fire for a while - completely overrun with dropshipped garbage, to the extent that it's actually difficult now to find quality stuff in the sea of "brands" with random string of capital letter names, all using the same poorly photoshopped image...

macstainless

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The kindle eink reader is amazing and absolutely great. However I don’t use KU and rarely buy books on it. I mainly use my library and read the borrowed books on it. As a piece of hardware it’s one of the few Amazon builds well. I’m surprised too.

Mummelpuffin

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This. I own a basic Kindle because it only cost me $60, and while I could upgrade to a better e-reader from a less monopolistic company, it'd just be a bit of e-waste I don't need to produce, and in the meantime Calibre + NoDRM / DeDRM means I can read books from anywhere on it.