I saw people trying to order [Sam O’Nella’s](/r/samonellaacademy) debut book and coming across fakes about a day after the official release. Generative AI really is a forgery machine
TheGargageMan on
Don’t buy from Amazon is your first step in not accidentally ending up with a product like this.
It’s a continuation of their scam from the past of allowing people to print out and sell wikipedia articles and other enshitification they’ve foisted on us.
ubcstaffer123 on
>Often the author credit is a clue. “Earl Weaver: The Science of Rage” is attributed to one “Bill Johns,” who to date has some 375 Amazon titles to his credit, on subjects ranging from college sports to bourbon, true crime and “small modular nuclear reactors.” Another of Johns’ titles: “The Confidence Game: Swindlers, Grifters and the Architects of Trust.”
“I tried to find this guy. I couldn’t find him,” Miller said. “He’s a made-up person.”
Is it possible to track down who the actual person is? they must have records on which bank account and phone it goes to. What if it is a team of people that are paid to publish books like that?
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I saw people trying to order [Sam O’Nella’s](/r/samonellaacademy) debut book and coming across fakes about a day after the official release. Generative AI really is a forgery machine
Don’t buy from Amazon is your first step in not accidentally ending up with a product like this.
It’s a continuation of their scam from the past of allowing people to print out and sell wikipedia articles and other enshitification they’ve foisted on us.
>Often the author credit is a clue. “Earl Weaver: The Science of Rage” is attributed to one “Bill Johns,” who to date has some 375 Amazon titles to his credit, on subjects ranging from college sports to bourbon, true crime and “small modular nuclear reactors.” Another of Johns’ titles: “The Confidence Game: Swindlers, Grifters and the Architects of Trust.”
“I tried to find this guy. I couldn’t find him,” Miller said. “He’s a made-up person.”
Is it possible to track down who the actual person is? they must have records on which bank account and phone it goes to. What if it is a team of people that are paid to publish books like that?