What is worse, IMO, is that these GenAI books have found their way into physical stores. You know, the few that are still left.

I've found AI slop at many big box stores (think Walmart, Target, etc. and all their equivalents around the world) - which I suspect are "industry plants", meaning that the publishing house will have someone internally generate books like these, and sell them as physical copies around the thousands of stores I mentioned.

It is the equivalent of record labels pushing their own in-house GenAI artists.

I'm sure they are banking on the possibility that the average book hoarder cannot tell the difference.

There is a new “mural” (a 10m tall graffiti painting if you will) that is -obviously, but not ironically- an orange-toned AI designed picture, probably commmissioned bu the company the house belongs to ; makes my eyes bleed everytime