Once you find one author with an AI-generated face and potential AI-generated books, Amazon will helpfully direct you to more

Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic.

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  • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    I do almost all of my reading on a kindle - one of the ones with ads on the lock screen, and for months now all of the ads have been for this type of no-effort, low-quality, AI-generated garbage. Amazon clearly doesn’t give a fuck as long as they make money.

    • StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk
      6·
      11 months ago

      Well, if they didn’t care about being flooded with machine generated trash, they wouldn’t have set the limit to books you can self publish down to a mere three per day.

      • Stillhart@lemm.ee
        8·
        11 months ago

        Now? They’ve had the option almost since they first started selling them. It’s like $10 to remove them permanently. Honestly didn’t realize anyone would get the one with ads on purpose but hey, I didn’t think people would use Twitter when I first heard about it either.

        • Librerian@beehaw.org
          1·
          11 months ago

          I just sent them a message asking them to disable the ads on the kindle I had recently purchased, and they did so for free, no root needed. That was a few years ago though, so I doubt they do that anymore…

          • Mika@beehaw.orgEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            Earlier this year I called them and let them know that some of the ads looked a little inappropriate for some of the children who use the device… They removed them no questions asked.

        • DdCno1@beehaw.org
          5·
          11 months ago

          I bought a few of their tablets with ads on purpose - and then just blocked the ads.

      • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
        8·
        11 months ago

        They have sold two ‘tiers’ of kindles for awhile, the one with ads on the lock screen is discounted.

        It’s not my favorite thing but iirc the lock screen is supposed to be the only place with ads.

        • Librerian@beehaw.org
          2·
          11 months ago

          I believe you’re right. However, if memory serves, the ads did change occasionally, meaning the screen had to refresh, leading to increased battery usage.

        • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Yes, and in fairness to them that’s how it has been. The ads are only for stuff sold on the kindle store too, so not like you’re seeing ads for hot singles in your area or some shit on your kindle. It’s only now that the store is flooded with this AI garbage that the ads have become annoying.

    • aperson@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know how it is now, but the older ones you could root and disable the ads.

      • I'm A Different Bird@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        You don’t even need root, or at least you didn’t when I had mine. You just need to turn on developer mode, and then the Fire Toolkit app can do the rest.