[rdtsc]

What's good for the goose is good for the gander: the AI generated not only the contents but the author as well.

This has to be some kind of a new level of idiocy. I mean, use AI to make junk sci-fi stories, and generate fake authors all day. But going for a book about mushrooms deserves a special stupidity and evilness award.

[throwanem]

It probably could be automated to a point where there's no human even in the loop here: I wonder if books about mushroom identification are trending in Amazon UK sales lately, or something like that.

No excuse, obviously. But it could explain how whoever's running the scam could have run it off this cliff - probably others, too.

It's been a couple years since I bought even paper books off Amazon. Used should theoretically be closer to OK, but eBay sellers are cheaper and much more trustworthy.