Kindle Books Written by AIs Vol.2024.1
This is the latest roundup of book titles that my Kindle shows me when I’m not reading it. Long ago, I considered paying to turn off this advertising, but it’s proven to be so entertaining that I’m happy I never gave in and did it. This is a view into what people are reading or what Amazon would like people to be reading or … whatever. I simply observe and catalog. I also sometimes have to hide my Kindle in public places so that no-one calls the police for what they think I’m reading.
Access Granted
Access Granted by Deondriea Cantrice
“Unlock your Confidence to Access the Life you Desire
“Unlocked your full potential. Dive into Access Granted and transform your life with unwavering confidence”
How much do you want to bet that the entire book doesn’t get much further than repeating the couple of sentences outlined above, which are already pretty redundant? Whereas I’m usually writing about books that seem to have been written by AIs without the author noticing how far off the rails their project has gone, this one is probably a much more modern instantiation of AI content: written nearly entirely by copy/pasting text blocks from Copilot or ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever.
“Escape to Hawaii with a chuckle on ever page in this fun cozy mystery series. Download now.”
Is it a series? Or a book? That picture is genius. There’s an adz, a knife, and a straw sticking out of a coconut with a smush-faced cat peeking up from behind it. I can’t believe that the author chose that picture. And what the hell is a “cozy mystery”?
OMG, I looked it up on Wikipedia and it means it’s an anodyne, inoffensive, and wholly unreadable bit of pap.
“[…] a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.”
By “USA Today Bestselling Author” … as if I didn’t need another reason to run, not walk, to the bookstore and pick up this gem.
Breaking free from Double Binds
Breaking Free from Double Binds by Alin Stan
“Strategies for Healthy Flat Sharing and Strong Relationships (www.blog.writingsummit.co.uk)”
Is there any way to break free from using three fonts just in the book title? There are six fonts and styles in total on this cover. What an odd-sounding book. The words are in English; the capitalization is strangely Germanic; I don’t know what it could possibly be about.
Kelvin. The pride of his mother
Kelvin, the pride of his mother by Felix Adepoju
I am sorely tempted to find out what the hell this book could even be about by searching it on Amazon. I will let it remain a mystery. I like to think it’s about how Lord Kelvin’s deeply disturbed oedipal relationship delayed his discovery of absolute zero by decades.
Wrath of the Northmen
“NOFATMTEN OF NO TE MENMEN. A GRIPING VIKEL OOF REEVNGE AND HONIOR AND HONOR”
“Wrath of the Northmen: A Gripping Viking Tale of Revenge and Honor”
This one is 100% AI-generated because look at the text on the cover! Look at his little itty-bitty sword! Why is he stabbing the fire with the scabbard still on the sword? Why is his scalp bleeding? Why is he so big and standing in water? Is that two boats? Or one really looooonnnng boat?
This is a perfect segue to books that are no longer possibly written with AI but definitely written with AI. We will think back on the halcyon days when actual humans churned out 220 pages of utter trash in a few days as the highest form of literary art compared to the dark times that are already upon us.