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		Bluestein on Aug 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Books of the world, stand up and be counted All 12... I - ignorantly - wonder what the whole point of that might be? - they cannot possibly sell that many in the intervening time ...

whythre on Aug 9, 2024 [–]

Padding numbers? ‘Our shitty bot has successfully* published* hundreds of books!’

Bluestein on Aug 9, 2024 | [–]

That is awful. (Though you are probably entirely correct ...)

(The only one's benefiting from that are the slop "shovels" purveyors to the AI-slop gold rush ...)

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