People Mad About Israeli Jew “AI Publishing” Scam

Wherever you have money, you have Jewish scams. We saw that with Bankman and FTX scamming the crypto scene.

Of course AI was going to be piled full of Jewish scam artists. Jews don’t really create anything, as a rule, they just find angles to suck money out of others.

The Guardian:

Writers and publishers are criticising a startup that plans to publish up to 8,000 books next year using AI.

The company, Spines, will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books edited, proofread, formatted, designed and distributed with the help of AI.

Independent publisher Canongate said “these dingbats … don’t care about writing or books”, in a Bluesky post. Spines is charging “hopeful would-be authors to automate the process of flinging their book out into the world, with the least possible attention, care or craft”.

“These aren’t people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related,” said author Suyi Davies Okungbowa, whose most recent book is Lost Ark Dreaming, in a post on Bluesky. “These are opportunists and extractive capitalists.”

Then these dingbats in the Bookseller – www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub… – who don’t care about writing or books, have realised that if you say ‘AI’ to the right people at this particular historical moment, they will hand you £16million in funding.

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— Canongate (@canongate.co.uk) November 25, 2024 at 7:05 AM

Then they want to charge $5,000 (!) to hopeful would-be authors to automate the process of flinging their book out into the world, with the least possible attention, care or craft.

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— Canongate (@canongate.co.uk) November 25, 2024 at 7:15 AM

Spines – which recently secured $16m in seed funding, according to a profile of the company in the Bookseller – says that authors will retain 100% of their royalties. Co-founder Yehuda Niv, who previously ran a publisher and publishing services business in Israel, claimed that the company “isn’t self-publishing” or a vanity publisher but a “publishing platform”.

The company is seemingly “just trying to speed up” self-publishing “in a way that won’t work well, and of course, they don’t want to call it that”, said Marco Rinaldi, co-host of Page One – The Writer’s Podcast, in a post on Bluesky.

If people want an AI editor, they can just download it. Thus far, it doesn’t work that well for that purpose. AI is good at generating content, but it makes many mistakes in trying to rework content, and the time you have to spend fixing those mistakes is a lot more than you would spend just editing yourself.

The impact of AI on writing is mostly going to be related to news, advertisement, and trade papers published by organizations. You can enter in a set of data you want in essay form and it will do it better than most humans. Creative work, however, is not something AI is likely to be good at any time soon.

These Jews are also talking about using AI for formatting, and that is another place where the time you spend doing corrections will be greater than the time it would take to just do it yourself.

People who write code have already figured this out: the AI we have right now is certainly an amazing leap, but it screws up so much that to use it for serious work means you have to spend more time correcting it than it would take to do it yourself.

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

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— Marco Rinaldi (@marcorinaldi.bsky.social) November 25, 2024 at 3:45 AM

It seems their “disruption” is just trying to speed up self-publishing (in a way that won’t work well, and of course, they don’t want to call it that – and also, screw the book cover artists, translators etc because obviously there is no human skill in that 🤦)

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— Marco Rinaldi (@marcorinaldi.bsky.social) November 25, 2024 at 4:12 AM

Oh, and screw the voice actors/narrators of audiobook as well 🙄

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— Marco Rinaldi (@marcorinaldi.bsky.social) November 25, 2024 at 4:16 AM