Most of the ads I've been getting are for AI-generated children's bedtime stories with anime-inspired covers. Approximately 0% of my reading consists of bedtime stories, so this is odd -- and it can be a bit embarrassing when my Kindle is left on a coffee table -- though it's ultimately no big deal.
But I've been getting more and more ads that are just plain gibberish. Here's one example: https://i.ibb.co/5xdTJJh/IMG-4893.jpg
"Sleep. Unnllocking the seccelts fon restfulll nights."
How is it in Amazon's best interests to let gibberish onto their platform? Surely it would be a trivial problem to fix? And why are the "authors" paying for ads? What's the business model here? Self-contained AI marketplace?
I opened a Facebook account to use with a Meta Quest 3; I haven't otherwise used Facebook or added friends but it generates a feed for me anyway that looks like subprime spam from after the heat death, on a level of "sketchy" well past the come-ons for pig butchering scams I get on Skype.
Amazon chooses to show my ad maybe once a week! They prefer to show trash ads I suppose, I don't know. I can't imagine those trash ads pay nearly what I had to bid to even get my ads to start showing up!
(Amazon auctions off impressions, which means you have to pay nearly your whole book margin to play the game. Essentially, they've sucked up every possible penny of online book sales for almost all books in their catalog.)