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An extensive, distressing study by originality.ai shows the extent to which dangerous AI slop has invaded Amazon’s bookstore, focusing on the proliferation of fake — and therefore also dangerous — books about herbal remedies. They analyzed the top seller in the category, THE NATURAL HEALING HANDBOOK attributed to the laughable Luna Filby, and all of the scanned elements “came back flagged as likely AI-generated with 100% confidence.” The study says, “The Natural Healing Handbook is not an outlier. It is a benchmark. It is the gold standard for likely AI-generated Amazon books that flat-out dominate the digital retailer, especially in niche subcategories. And we …
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Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Forrest Gander's THE WEIGHT OF A FROZEN MOMENT, a coming-of-age novel about the friendship between two sisters in the Sierra Nevadas; and DESERT MUSIC: ESSAYS, a collection of devotional inquiries into place, and human and geological memory, to Daniel Slager at Milkweed, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in early 2027 and fall 2027, by Michael Taeckens at Massie McQuilkin & Altman (world). morgan_larocca@milkweed.org
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