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It's used for sea-lion ideological attacks against authors and works, a specific outcome of the general review-spam issue.

The data is terrible and badly governed. There was a recent thread here, I believe, about an author who couldn't get AI-written books out of her name because they simply won't correct their data.



> There was a recent thread here, I believe, about an author who couldn't get AI-written books out of her name because they simply won't correct their data.

Worse, those books were being sold on Amazon!

https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated...


What is a sea-lion attack in this context? I haven't heard that one before, and it's not the easiest to search.


Had to look it up as well:

'Sealioning' is a form of trolling meant to exhaust the other debate participant with no intention of real discourse. [0]

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/sealioning-internet...




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