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A journey into Kindle AI slop hell

A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann

I’m not sure when, exactly, Amazon determined that I had lost the ability to read, but one day my Kindle lock screen was gently nudging me toward the new Lauren Groff, and the next it was pushing a series of books with the subtitle: "Bedtime Story for Kids and Adults." Using Mindreading for Good: Cute Fairy Tale Bedtime Story for Kids, written by Lynnell Gorshteyny, is about a young girl named Olivia who goes to sleep one night and wakes up with the ability to hear the thoughts of others around her. If only so that, in a couple of years from now, in a time that feels both immeasurably far but that I’m aware will arrive sooner than I can imagine, my son and I will snuggle up together in his bed, we will open up his personal tablet, and I will read him several Bedtime Story before he drifts sweetly off to sleep.

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