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

  • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    The two communities I’m most missing from going cold turkey on Reddit are niche book subgenre subs. I used to check them daily for new book announcements and discussions, and I got literally all of my “fun” book recommendations from those subs.

    I guess they have a Discord group which is okay, but I’m not really interested in sitting in a chat room.

    So yeah, agreed. Discoverability is a huge problem for authors already, even before AI-written drivel starts filling the Kindle store.

    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What genres are you looking for? There are a couple good communities, but youre right, not nearly as big or as niche as most subreddits. Though ive found the reccomendations to be higher quality when i do see them.

      • Dusty@l.dustybeer.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        For me it’s fantasy. Stuff like Dungeon Crawler Carl, Joe Abercrombe or R A Salvatore etc… If you have a suggestion for an active community that’s not on discord I’d love to hear it.

        • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Hmmm I am more of a sci-fi person, but I’ve definitely still seen some threads talking about fantasy books. I’m guessing you’re already on the main book communities like !books@lemmy.ml !literature@beehaw.org ? They are pretty active and I do see discussion on threads talking about fantasy books. There is also the fantasy community !fantasy@lemmy.ml – which does admittedly have pretty low traffic (though, you could be the change you want to see…). I found one niche community that was very recently made !cozyfantasy@wayfarershaven.eu

          I get how hard it can be to find active book reading communities & wish I had more suggestions in the fantasy realm. If you have a specific sub genre in mind, search for it or maybe even make a community for it. I was surprised to find a few different scifi sub genres already had active communities on lemmy & even recently made communities are growing fairly quickly with the new users.

          Good luck finding your next page turner & lmk if you want sci-fi recs :)

          Edit: to add and un-add exclamation points

          • Rekorse@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            To be fair you don’t need that many people to commit to a session in a book reading club before it’s full enough to work. Anything more is just a bonus.

          • sgtlighttree@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Just a heads up, I think you should remove the exclamation points in your links, it resulted in a 404 for me before I removed them.

            • fiah@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              1 year ago

              using a exclamation mark should work, and it does work exactly as intended for me. Each of these links properly opens to the community on my local instance

            • hazeebabee@slrpnk.net
              1·
              1 year ago

              thanks for the heads up, ill change that

              update: I tried removing them, but it made it so the links no longer worked for me, so I put them back