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by m463 784 days ago
I went to buy an air fryer. There were several specific-air-fryer-model recipe books available. But they were all garbage auto-generated stuff.

I complained to amazon, and they said since I hadn't purchased the book they couldn't do anything. So I bought the book, complained, and returned it. The chapters devoted to the details of the specific air fryer model were either very general (almost quotes of product description on amazon), or just plain wrong.

What I thought I would get would be like the magic lantern books about specific camera models. Instead it was auto-generated pages of nonsense.

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Your real-life example is a good case against using AI-generated legal or medical advice.