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by Gigachad 2 hours ago
There was a case a while back now of an AI generated mushroom identification book filled with inaccuracies.

Problem is short of filtering out anything published after 2023 it’s almost impossible to find something that isn’t slop now.

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> Problem is short of filtering out anything published after 2023

Is it even feasible to filter this? Such metadata can be easily faked too in a lot of contexts.

We can basically only read well known books from the past.
You don’t use metadata. You use old book reviews and historical top charts.