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Screencap of a grifter's ChatGPD product advertisement. Copy reads: Designrr (sponsored post) ChatGPT has made the process of writing a bestselling book easy. But once the book is written how do you get it published and selling? Designrr has unleashed a software that allows you take your ChatGPT content, blogs, word docs, etc and with lightning fast speed and customizable templates convert them into stunning ebooks. Once published, simply upload it to Amazon and start selling! You can have your ebook written by ChatGPT and published to Amazon faster than it takes your competitors to even think of a topic to write about. Start monetizing what you know... or should we say what ChatGPT knows! Get Designrr today! (URL to scam product censored)

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Screencap of a grifter's ChatGPD product advertisement. Copy reads: Designrr (sponsored post) ChatGPT has made the process of writing a bestselling book easy. But once the book is written how do you get it published and selling? Designrr has unleashed a software that allows you take your ChatGPT content, blogs, word docs, etc and with lightning fast speed and customizable templates convert them into stunning ebooks. Once published, simply upload it to Amazon and start selling! You can have your ebook written by ChatGPT and published to Amazon faster than it takes your competitors to even think of a topic to write about. Start monetizing what you know... or should we say what ChatGPT knows! Get Designrr today! (URL to scam product censored)
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Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 02:41:43 JST Charlie Stross

This scam relies on the onlooker's ignorance of a key element of the reader/writer ecosystem: readers have finite time for reading, and their time is inelastic.
The very first sentence in the pitch asserts that it's easy to write a bestselling book (with or without AI assistance). But if that was the case, why isn't everybody doing it already?
Books can't all be bestsellers, because the customers' reading time is inelastic. So they buy on perceived quality. So this is a grift. QED.

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