Amazon Is Taking Spammers' Money to Serve Ads for AI-Generated Books on Kindle Lock Screens

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Amazon Is Taking Spammers' Money to Serve Ads for AI-Generated Books on Kindle Lock Screens

Last month, we reported that the lock screens of Amazon Kindles were displaying ads for what were obviously AI-generated books, leading to an outcry from readers on social media. At the time, our best theory was that bad actors were somehow manipulating Amazon's algorithms to boost their garbled offerings ahead of worthwhile books by human authors. But as readers pointed out, the reality is even worse: Amazon is actively accepting money to place…