The issue of AI-written garbage on Amazon is one that is likely only in its infancy. Given Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment into OpenAI, and the deeply unwelcome infiltration of its pisspoor in-built AI helper Rufus, the site hardly seems poised to defend itself from slop books becoming an ever-more present feature. And if there’s one example of just how farcical this situation is becoming, it’s the appearance of AI-delusion “guidebooks” for unfinished, unreleased games.
This phenomenon has been superbly written about on Substack site Rick’s Game Blacklog, where on searching Amazon to learn game release dates, the author instead
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