<story><title>Update on KDP Title Creation Limits</title><url>https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Update-on-KDP-Title-Creation-Limits?language=en_US&amp;forum=KDP%20Forum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japhyr</author><text>It&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see where this goes. Amazon has had ML-generated garbage books for years now, and I assume they haven&amp;#x27;t taken them down because they make money even when they sell garbage.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maybe&lt;/i&gt; there&amp;#x27;s so much garbage coming in now that they finally have to do something about it? I feel for people trying to learn about technical topics, who aren&amp;#x27;t aware enough of this issue to avoid buying ML-generated books with high ratings from fake reviews. The intro programming market is full of these scam books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>I was thinking about buying an air fryer.  My search came up with cookbooks specific to that air fryer, and I was intrigued.  I found a good 5-star book, but then I found that ALL the 5-star reviews were submitted the same day.&lt;p&gt;I complained, but Amazon defended the book as legitimate, and since I hadn&amp;#x27;t purchased it, they would not take any action.  (to be honest, I assume frontline customer service reps don&amp;#x27;t have much experience or power)&lt;p&gt;So I purchased it, complained, got a refund and then they were able to accept my complaint (after passing the complaint higher in the food chain).&lt;p&gt;Seriously, how hard was it amazon?  I guess they&amp;#x27;re starting to notice.&lt;p&gt;Take a look at air fryer cookbooks - there are books specific to most makes and models.   But everything is ML copypasta all the way up and down - the title, the recipes and the reviews all seem to be generated garbage.</text></comment>
<story><title>Update on KDP Title Creation Limits</title><url>https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Update-on-KDP-Title-Creation-Limits?language=en_US&amp;forum=KDP%20Forum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japhyr</author><text>It&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see where this goes. Amazon has had ML-generated garbage books for years now, and I assume they haven&amp;#x27;t taken them down because they make money even when they sell garbage.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maybe&lt;/i&gt; there&amp;#x27;s so much garbage coming in now that they finally have to do something about it? I feel for people trying to learn about technical topics, who aren&amp;#x27;t aware enough of this issue to avoid buying ML-generated books with high ratings from fake reviews. The intro programming market is full of these scam books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miohtama</author><text>Garbage books are used for money laundering.&lt;p&gt;You buy books using stolen credit cards and such.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;apr&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;fake-books-sold-amazon-money-laundering&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;books&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;apr&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;fake-books-sol...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>