Louisa: These AI generated book ads on my Kindle lock screen are getting weirder and weirder. Like…you can’t even be bothered to put actual text on your AI generated cover? Who is this going to fool into buying the book? Where is the ad budget coming from?

These AI generated book ads on my Kindle lock screen are getting weirder and weirder. Like…you can’t even be bothered to put actual text on your AI generated cover? Who is this going to fool into buying the book? Where is the ad budget coming from?

I preferred it when my ads were mostly for earnest self-published disasters actually written by a human being

Btw my Kindle was a gift, you don’t need to convince me that Amazon is not good

That is just… NUTS.

I think you're just being tmenenelmeenirst

That’s very procovgll sivctenisy of you to say.

😂

I know the text is egregious, but also: Potentiial

I didn’t catch that until I was doing the alt text. They can’t even spellcheck the title of their book??

Look, I’m just going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the person(s) in charge here are not big fans of words.

Or of graphics. These poor boobs are walking right into the N and L - bonk bonk

belly laugh on that one! :)

they prefer woids

It’s the sequel to ‘Unlocking Your Potent1al’

2po 2tential

smh double i's is my thing dangit

It's showing you what you can achieve if you put your mind to it!

That’s what they call your capacity for greatness in those Avatar movies.

You laugh, but Uurenx’s first book changed my life. (I’m worse now.)

I found that antibiotics cured Uurenx quite quickly

I preferred Uurenx’s books before they started collaborating with Memirking. Kinda like Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Author photo of Uurenx and Memirking

ah yes, my favorite human authors: UURENX AND MEMIRKING

THE YOURRSTIALL SOTER BOOIK TMENENELMEENIRST? in nemer on your snerass.

As I’ve always said, the people in ai art are all monsters who want to consume and then wear your skin. That’s why they all look like that

Uurenx and Memirking is the best named SF duo since Trurl and Klapaucius

the most iconic duo since delueunx and guatutarki

I love language

I really got a lot of Uurenx’s lecture series but Memirking is a fraud

the "is this dutch? am I having a stroke" flavor text adds a layer of interest the layout, title, and design does not provoke. genius?

A human would remove the lorem ipsum sample text, but thanks to bleeding edge technology we can do this instead of you know, growing corn this summer.

I’m so excited about Memirking!

Uurenx did most of the heavy lifting though.

uurenx and memirking at tanagra when the walls fell

When I worked at Amazon, I was on the team that generated those ads. There was human review on each one to avoid crap like that. Seems that got cut at some point, with entirely predictable results.

I don't understand any of the details of how this business works, but it's my assumption that publishers pay a certain amount for ad impressions. Presumably, Amazon or their agent holds an auctionand all the slots are sold. Whose interests could be served by offering something not actually for sale?

It’s for sale. I clicked the ad. $2.99. I was tempted to download the sample and see how bad it actually is but I don’t want to encourage them

Jokes on you, that's a masterful literary fiction fantasy novel about someone in the dream world and the cover gloriously recreates that feeling of almost but not quite being able to read in dreams! haha jk that's an interesting fun idea and this is neither.

That's not how an incandescent lightbulb works at all.

From the tmenenelneerst, obviously

Who AI generated this. I could make this in half an hour and I’m layout, not graphic design

It's obviously a response to a copyright lawsuit by Lorem Ipsum et al.

Lorem Ipsum isn't free Louisa, they worked hard for this.

I think we've found the author of at least one of them

IN NEWER ON YOUR SNERASS

DON'T YOU UGOFESH ME

What, and I mean this in the sincerest way possible, the fuck

“Ín newer on your snerass” to you too, robot.

(in the style of "PREGANANANT?") TMENENELMEENIRST?

Part of many reasons why I have removed myself from the Kindle ecosystem, I don’t buy e-books from Amazon anymore, I buy them from Kobo and I have a Kobo reader, and everything is sideloaded. I love it.

Anyway, I’ll be selling my Kindle Paperwhite soon.

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