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It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited
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What I don't understand is who is downloading and reading these books?
More bots
My guess is: adventurous readers who are intrigued by a small snippet, then figure it out on page 2 after they've bought it already.
Judging by the article even the snippets are pure nonsense:
It could be vastly improved upon with the new LLMs, but these are just complete rubbish.
It's surprising to me that they didn't at least have a human write/steal the title and blurb. You'd think that'd work better than books with obviously gibberish titles.
When your listing is written in a way only fools fall for you avoid the hassle of people that know better wanting to return things or complain. It's the same concept as email scams.