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  1. RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected] ·

    Bought an anatomy book. Kindle immediately highlights "Ask this Book," before I read it. Annoying. It would be annoying even if Amazon paid authors extra for LLM training on their book and even did it privately on the reader's device, but they don't. That's a "derivative work" right they ain't paying for, btw. I want to remove the distracting button, too. For usability reasons. But I can't. Can't remove the Rufus from the store app that adds extra friction to buying and searching for things. Are they mad? Bonuses do trump good UI design, right?

    I hope #Amazon gets burnt (to a cinder) when #AI spirals into the financial black hole it's forming. #askthisbook #rufus #author

    #amazon #ai #askthisbook #rufus #author
  2. IndieAuthors.Social News @[email protected] ·

    News Summary: Authors Guild Pushes Back on Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ AI Feature

    The news starts 2026 as it ended 2025, with Amazon's new Ask This Book feature for Kindle books. When I first reported on this, I had yet to see the response from authors. Thanks to a link in Jane Friedman's newsletter, I have now been able to read and digest a very robust…
    selfpublishingadvice.org/ask-t

    #AIfeatures #AmazonKindle #AskThisBook #authorrights #AuthorsGuild

    #aifeatures #amazonkindle #askthisbook #authorrights #authorsguild
  3. Le site de Korben [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·

    Kindle balance une IA dans vos livres et les auteurs n'ont pas leur mot à dire

    fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.i

    #actualitesbusinesslegislationjuridique #intelligenceartificiellechatbotsllm #amazon #askthisbook #auteurs #chatbot