"Experts also said they were concerned about the potential for the toys to create dependency and emotional bonding.
Each toy tested by NBC News repeatedly asked follow-up questions or otherwise encouraged users to keep playing with them".
Each toy tested by NBC News repeatedly asked follow-up questions or otherwise encouraged users to keep playing with them".
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Experts also said they were concerned about the potential for the toys to create dependency and emotional bonding.
Each toy tested by NBC News repeatedly asked follow-up questions or otherwise encouraged users to keep playing with them".
Each toy tested by NBC News repeatedly asked follow-up questions or otherwise encouraged users to keep playing with them".
“Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences that bring them joy and fulfillment,” the toy bunny said.
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
“Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences that bring them joy and fulfillment,” the toy bunny said.
"A quick search on TikTok shows close to 90,000 videos and tutorials on how to make passive income on KDP with constant AI publishing.
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Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"AI knockoff books operate in a legal grey area to get around obvious copyright issues (...) often reuse the main title of the book they’re ripping off so people might believe they’re buying the real thing, but closer inspection show that many are filed as biographies, workbooks or summaries".
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"AI knockoff books operate in a legal grey area to get around obvious copyright issues (...) often reuse the main title of the book they’re ripping off so people might believe they’re buying the real thing, but closer inspection show that many are filed as biographies, workbooks or summaries".
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not just using public domain books but making AI versions of new books that have just been released — ones that more people will be likely to search for".
not just using public domain books but making AI versions of new books that have just been released — ones that more people will be likely to search for".
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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not just using public domain books but making AI versions of new books that have just been released — ones that more people will be likely to search for".
not just using public domain books but making AI versions of new books that have just been released — ones that more people will be likely to search for".
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Many also use AI to design and publish easy versions of books like children’s books, coloring sheets, or cookbooks. But AI knockoff books on Amazon take this instinct and move it a step further,
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Many also use AI to design and publish easy versions of books like children’s books, coloring sheets, or cookbooks. But AI knockoff books on Amazon take this instinct and move it a step further,
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December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Many also use AI to design and publish easy versions of books like children’s books, coloring sheets, or cookbooks. But AI knockoff books on Amazon take this instinct and move it a step further,
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Many also use AI to design and publish easy versions of books like children’s books, coloring sheets, or cookbooks. But AI knockoff books on Amazon take this instinct and move it a step further,
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These creators — many of whom sell their own workbooks and classes on how to game the KDP system — take public domain classic literature and use AI to add summaries and discussion questions before relisting them on the site with a new cover.
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These creators — many of whom sell their own workbooks and classes on how to game the KDP system — take public domain classic literature and use AI to add summaries and discussion questions before relisting them on the site with a new cover.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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These creators — many of whom sell their own workbooks and classes on how to game the KDP system — take public domain classic literature and use AI to add summaries and discussion questions before relisting them on the site with a new cover.
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These creators — many of whom sell their own workbooks and classes on how to game the KDP system — take public domain classic literature and use AI to add summaries and discussion questions before relisting them on the site with a new cover.
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It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It's just two parallel realities: one for an executive class so enraptured by the promise of labor savings that creative departments are pushed into creating AI slop, and one for everyone else, who view the slop with their own eyes and are repulsed by the rank aesthetics of automation
"Degrading the NATO alliance and other transatlantic ties will only make the US and Europe more vulnerable and easier to capture".
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"Degrading the NATO alliance and other transatlantic ties will only make the US and Europe more vulnerable and easier to capture".
"Putin and his corporatist allies are calling for the dissolution of the EU and are promoting (along with the NSS) far-right ultranationalist parties across Europe. Descent into conflict is inevitable if this process continues unabated".
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"Putin and his corporatist allies are calling for the dissolution of the EU and are promoting (along with the NSS) far-right ultranationalist parties across Europe. Descent into conflict is inevitable if this process continues unabated".
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reset the working expectations of the tech workers who sit behind a keyboard to match the expectations of tech workers who assemble iPhones, drive delivery vans, and pack boxes in warehouses".
reset the working expectations of the tech workers who sit behind a keyboard to match the expectations of tech workers who assemble iPhones, drive delivery vans, and pack boxes in warehouses".
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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reset the working expectations of the tech workers who sit behind a keyboard to match the expectations of tech workers who assemble iPhones, drive delivery vans, and pack boxes in warehouses".
reset the working expectations of the tech workers who sit behind a keyboard to match the expectations of tech workers who assemble iPhones, drive delivery vans, and pack boxes in warehouses".
"For tech bosses, mass layoffs offer another, critical advantage: pauperizing those princes of labor, so that they can shed their company gyms and luxury commuter busses, cut wages and benefits, and generally
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December 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"For tech bosses, mass layoffs offer another, critical advantage: pauperizing those princes of labor, so that they can shed their company gyms and luxury commuter busses, cut wages and benefits, and generally
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