Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱1d ago

Dystopia Status Level: ADS IN BOOKS 😡

My dear readers, you can leave Amazon, I promise. Even reducing Amazon usage helps, but *especially* for books. There are alternatives.

Here's how to find them:
https://susankayequinn.com/how-to-buy-sues-books-a-guide-to-retailers

Show threadDavid Scott Moyer1d ago
@susankayequinn I am all for the alternatives, but there are no ads imbedded in amazon ebooks.
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱1d ago
@farbel first, you don't know that; second, they're *already* putting chatbots in the ebooks; third, Amazon has a long long LONG history of just rolling out stuff in small batch trials to see how it floats; fourth, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was AI accidentally left in the ebook by a shitty AI enthusiast author; fifth, people have OPENLY talked about ads in ebooks FOREVER; sixth, if this is none of the above, wait a minute, that will change.
Show threadHannah Steenbock

@susankayequinn

Yeah, that looks like an AI-slopped book that hasn't been edited properly. I just spied an m-dash in the next sentence. *snicker*

@farbel

Mar 22 at 6:20amWeb
Show threadHiisikoloart1d ago

@Firlefanz @susankayequinn @farbel

I saw a video about amazon eBooks getting edited. As in old classics getting edited to have mentions of tiktok, instagram, facebook, twitter to make them more "current" but to me it smells like advertisement shit cakes to try to get people who read books to stop by their social medias instead.

Paperbacks they can't change at least...

Show threadHannah Steenbock1d ago

@hiisikoloart

Yeah, it'll get to the point that anything printed after 2024 will not be allowed in libraries.

Such a dystopian thought.

@susankayequinn @farbel

Show threadHiisikoloart1d ago
@Firlefanz @susankayequinn @farbel
Hopefully it wont go to that and instead libraries demand that the books they choose are provenly human made with zero AI in them.
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱23h ago

@hiisikoloart @Firlefanz @farbel

unfortunately, there's no way to prove there's zero AI (and the erasure of truth is part of AI's intent)
https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2026/03/20/shy-girl-ai-in-writing-and-a-new-perniciousness/

Shy Girl, AI In Writing, And A New Perniciousness

I wanna talk about Cameron’s The Terminator and Carpenter’s The Thing, but first, let’s get it out of the way — If you know anything at all about me in this Current Era, it …

Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱23h ago

@Firlefanz @farbel

I'm a big fan of em-dashes. They are not an AI thing — AI stole it from US. We are the source.

Chuck Wendig has it right: https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2026/03/20/shy-girl-ai-in-writing-and-a-new-perniciousness/

Shy Girl, AI In Writing, And A New Perniciousness

I wanna talk about Cameron’s The Terminator and Carpenter’s The Thing, but first, let’s get it out of the way — If you know anything at all about me in this Current Era, it …

Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds
Show threadHannah Steenbock22h ago

@susankayequinn

No, m-dashes are not a sure-fire way of identifying an AI, of course not. And it's absolutely unfair to authors who like using them.

I was thinking that the combination of everything, i.e. the style, the insane plug and the m-dashes, does point to LLMs and AI.

Which, yes, are a pox on this world.

@farbel

Show threadShantell Powell22h ago
@Firlefanz @susankayequinn @farbel I regularly use em-dashes. I do not use LLMs.
Show threadHannah Steenbock22h ago

@Shanmonster

I don't use AI, either.

But I also do not like m-dashes, which might make me a stupid author?

@susankayequinn @farbel

Show threadShantell Powell14h ago
@Firlefanz @susankayequinn @farbel I don't like periods, so I went through menopause.
Show threadDavid Scott Moyer13h ago
@Shanmonster @Firlefanz @susankayequinn jajajajaja