I wonder how a prompt could wind up in the final product; this may indicate that the author lacks more than just writing skills; "slopdash" seems a relevant neologism.<p>> as book 1 of this series released 1/24/25, book 2 on 3/13/25, and book 3 on 3/23/25<p>That is indeed suspicious, but it is also bad business. Book-reading is uncommon in the US, so it makes no sense to release a book series that frequently; many readers take a long time to read through a single book; it's more entertaining to spread releases out.<p>> which leads into my paranoid theory that a percentage of readers are just skim reading<p>That may explain some of the appetite to buy three books in ~3 months. I'm not saying that's fast (I could read a 300-page novel in a day or two, without skimming), but it may be fast if you don't skim, you are working >40 hours/week, and you have a family to take care of. I wonder how much of the book industry is propped up by skimmers.<p>> The internet at large is also facing an existential threat in the shape of an AI slop tsunami.<p>That's a bit much; AI slop is a problem, but it isn't a tsunami-level event. It remains unclear if any managers have successfuly replaced any employees 100% with AI; somebody has to write the prompts, and it isn't the managers, who have neither the time nor, in most cases, the understanding of the jobs purported to be replaceable.<p>For people who like trendy things, AI slop is a problem, because AI is actually good at churning out trendy things, because trendy things are usually slop. But even for trendy slop, AI isn't a tsunami; trends will ebb-and-flow with or without AI.