AI children's books, body horror edition

Last week, I posted a visual demonstration of the sameness of AI-generated content. This makes the content easy to spot even if all the individual pieces are perfect facsimiles of what a human could create:In the article, I deliberately sidestepped the question of quality. These conversations almost never lead anywhere; the rebuttal is always that the next model will be better than the last. So, I tried to make a simpler point: the books are all the same. You lose more than you might be expecting if you let an LLM be your voice.But as a parent, curiosity eventually got the better of me, so I purchased one of these bestsellers. And before we dive in, I think that children’s encyclopedias are targeted with such ferocity for three reasons:They probably sell well. I’d wager that most children in the developed world get one at some point in their lives.The buyer is not the reader. The books are judged by the cover and purchased as gifts by relatives or family friends.In contrast to…