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@Mel Hopkins at the bottom of the edit screen simply click the area shown below, and you’ll be able to upload an image. Alternatively, you can copy an image to the clipboard and simply paste it directly into the Editing window. It’s pretty much the same procedure as before.

Yeah, I stopped using Grammarly once AI came on the scene. I'm surprised Grammarly is still in business I did not think they had a viable business model. What service can they actually provide the free version of ChatGPT can't handle? Speaking of NvisiLink I never did follow up on my investment several years ago. I know someone who sells windows and wear a band that records his interactions with customers then works up a profile of the customer they motivations what they need to hear. He is very impressed with the products and closed more deal as a result. @Delano whether a chat bot makes things up is of less consequence, today, that when a human lies to you are makes things up.

@ProfD In a previous conversation I talked about how AI allowed some non-musician to make a song I thought could be a hit and how a couple of sistas turned me onto an AI song they were both strongly moved by. They knew it was AI, but did not care, so you may be right. I can see a time where human musicians are covering or sampling AI music in live performances. We are not going to stop the tech billionaires from profiting off AI generated content -- that ship has sailed. As with white authors writing bestselling books with Black characters and about Black experiences, AI will do the same and there is nothing we can do about it. There have been plenty of white folks who have done a great job of related Black stories. Perhaps @Phil Lamar's Fictionalized account of Wyatt Outlaw is an example. AI may reach a point where it can do the same. Still White folks and AI can't be allowed to crowd out and take precedence over Black folks telling our own stories. For a wide variety of reason that is what continues to happen today. At the foundation of this problem lies a bedrock of our nation's history of white racism. It permeates everything and is baked into the publishing industry despite the many "woke" people who work in it today. That Juneteenth book for kids is a perfect example. Again, we must vet and curate Black content and make sure BS, whether human or AI generated, is not feed to our people. We need institutions for this. Since the end of segregation, we have little history of doing this, so things do not bode well for us. We have the institutions we just don't support them. Personally, I subscribe to Black-owned Newspapers to help support black institutions and to get Information important to our community from Black journalists. I don't use social media for information because I don't want to be lied to and geesh, doesn't social media get enough of our support? Elon is a 13-figga-nigga and what happened to "Black Twitter?"

As quiet as it's been kept, I produce the nation's most comprehensive bestsellers list featuring books written by Black people, The BLK Bestsellers: https://blkbestsellers.com/ Frankly, nothing has ever come close to a list like this. In a media landscape not dominated by a handful of white male billionaires, this would already be a big deal... but I digress. Using sales data provided by Circana BookScan, the goal of the BLK list is to highlight books written by Black people that are selling well but are not getting the attention they deserve. Only a handful of the BLK Bestsellers ever make the NY Times or USA Today lists; the BLK Bestsellers list helps to improve the discoverability of books by Black writers. My challenge is identifying the books written by Black authors to rank. There are no metadata fields I can query because no one really tracks an author's ethnicity (or so-called race). One of the things I've noticed, especially in the children's book space, is that the bestselling books featuring Black children are often not written by Black writers. IMHO, there is nothing inherently wrong with white writers writing about Black people, but in practice these writers often enjoy structural benefits that Black writers do not and it's just another way Black stories by Black people are suppressed. While working on this month's BLK List the #23 ranked book (image below) turned out to be My First Juneteenth Book for Toddlers by Ambsachi Nila. I was not familiar with the author which surprised me because I know the top selling children's book authors. The book was identified based upon the book's subject (Juneteenth) and its relatively high sales. So, I do what I normally do and researched the author, while authors included on the BLK Bestsellers list must be Black, I would certainly consider them for inclusion on AALBC.com. A web search for Ambsachi Nila revealed nothing about the author who is presumably also the illustrator of the book. It is not unusual for an author to hide their identity, but this is not typical for a children's book author, because classroom visits are an important source of income for many children's book authors. Ambsachi Nila didn't even have a website. So, I resorted to AI to see what I could learn about this writer/illustrator. At this point I'm still operating on the assumption that Ambsachi Nila is human. Gemini reached the same conclusion I was beginning to suspect, stating that "the books published under the name Ambsachi Nila were likely generated by AI or assembled using rapid automated content-generation tools." It also identified several additional warning signs I had overlooked (see its full response at the end of this message). Even without AI, I was definitely not going to add the book to AALBC or the BLK List, but the fact that it sold so many copies during Juneteenth, for lack of a better word, is fu*ked up--seriously. One of the top-selling books about Juneteenth was a subpar book likely created by a rapid automated content-generation tool. Hundreds of people were duped into buying this book. This is what happens when tech billionaires control book discoverability and sales. As with everything else, we (Black people) suffer the most. I maintain lists of Juneteenth books for kids (nonfiction and fiction). When it comes to Black culture, trust lists curated by Black people who have your best interests in mind—not algorithms designed to maximize revenue. Other, "AL slop" titles by the same "author," Ambsachi Nila: Gemini Confirmed My Suspicions: It is highly likely—somewhere in the 90% to 95% range—that the books published under the name Ambsachi Nila are completely generated by AI or assembled using rapid automated content-generation tools. When you look closely at the data trail left by these books on retail platforms, they display all the classic "smoking guns" of the synthetic book-packaging mills that have flooded Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) over the last couple of years. The Evidence Breakdown 1. Grammatical "Hiccups" in the Core Text AI text generators and non-native automated scrapers often stumble over fine syntax and pluralization rules. If you look closely at the official publisher's synopsis uploaded to book databases for the Kwanzaa Book for Toddlers, the text contains glaring grammatical errors and typos: "Kwanzaa Book for Toddlers was especially designed for young kids and write in easy-to-follow language..." "This educational book explain the seven principles..." "...full of colorful, bright and eye-catching ilustrations..." (spelled with a single 'l') A genuine children's book author or an established publishing house employs editors to catch these fundamental errors before pushing a book live to global distribution networks. Automated book-generation setups skip this step entirely. 2. Extreme Keyword Stuffing Human authors title their books for artistic resonance or clear branding. AI-driven operations title their books strictly to trick search algorithms. The full title registered in global databases reads: "Kwanzaa Book For Toddlers About Culture and Principles of Kwanzaa Holiday to Learn and Celebrate for Kids - Kwanzaa Books for Kids" This is not a title; it is a search string designed to capture click traffic from parents typing generic holiday terms into search bars. 3. The 36-Page KDP "Template" Layout The book's physical dimensions are listed as exactly $8.5 \times 8.5\text{ inches}$ with a page count of precisely 36 pages. This is the absolute standard automated template footprint used for print-on-demand children's books generated via Amazon KDP. A script or a prompt tells Midjourney or ChatGPT to produce roughly 15 consecutive square image blocks and matching simple sentences, which are then poured into an automated formatting tool and uploaded in a matter of minutes. Anatomy of a "Book Mill" Since the explosion of generative AI models, a massive global side-hustle industry has emerged. Operators use tools to: Generate simple rhyming text or basic holiday overviews using LLMs. Generate matching stock vector images or clip art using diffusion models. Publish the books under a completely fabricated, ethnically ambiguous pseudonym (like "Ambsachi Nila") to appear authoritative to unsuspecting buyers. The Bottom Line These types of books are commercial entities generated to mine search data for passive revenue. Because they lack a real author, they also lack any real cultural depth, nuance, or authentic lived experience. This trend highlights exactly why curated networks like AALBC are so important. In a sea of algorithmic noise and synthetic content, finding and vetting real, human Black authors who pour their actual souls and heritages into their books is the only way to protect authentic literary culture.

AI is such a profound threat is so many ways. @gio74's tactic may not be that "funny." Whose else would be better at detecting--it take one to know one. It has come to a point that I can't tell with 100% certainty. Many of the tells that I used to use are going away or are being edited out. One thhing gets on my nerves is AI's love affair with emojis. If you ever see written text with more than a handful of emoji's assume it was written by an AI.

I did not watch the 30-minute video of the guy who I'm sure just giving his opinion of the information shared at the point. I see know reason to watch to it, unless someone can explain why his opinions matters. Now as someone who grew up in the segregated north and did not know a white person my age until I got to high school and was a full-grown man before I could call one a friend or had one in my home, I'm not nearly as paranoid as y'all are regarding white folks 😨 Also true, as a Black man who attended a three majority-white universities and worked for a couple of decades in fortune 20 companies, I was the only Black person in many spaces. There were times when racist statements were ignorantly made and is one of many reasons I left corporate America, but I was never at risk of being murdered or even physically harmed. I have no idea what happened to this young brother, so if his "friends" turned on him and murdered him simply because was Black -- that is crazy! However, I suspect the situation is more complicated, than that simple narrative circulating around the web and enriching Mark and his boys. The fact Ben Crump got involved is telling. Ben does not strike me as a straight up ambulance chaser, but what do I know...

Well for his family's sake may he RIP. As these 'ole school politicians die out maybe things will begin to improve for the country.

You don’t have to be gay not to want a woman. Obviously, not bad enough. Yeah, you live in Wakanda Brother 🌍

OK, who do you think is smarter Hitler or Trump?

I’m not a fan of these AI videos optimized for the YouTube algorithm. One, and you’ll notice this across a wide variety of videos even the ones created by humans, is that they are so redundant. YouTube likes longer videos for their algorithm so creativives create unnecessarily long videos. For example, that bit about drinking I felt like I was beating over a head with a stick with that line. Sheesh it was annoying and that’s ignoring the fact that I actually agree with @Pioneer1 on that subject. My generation definitely drank a lot more than the generation that came after me. Now the generation that came next (the one talked about in the video) definitely smokes a lot more weed. Surprisingly that didn’t make it into the video. There are some other points that I disagree with, but they are arguable..,

I don’t recall that conversation, but I can tell you one thing with 100% certainty those brothers don’t want a woman, and that’s perfectly fine. I just remember your boy Tariq Nashed had a whole career teacher brothers how to Mack women:

Sorry, if everyone one the planet lived in Texas the population density would be lower than it is in NYC. It is simply not possible to count every human being. That fact that people are dying and being born every second make it impossible to get an accurate snapshot. People are scattered all over the place. Demographers suggest the discrepancy can be 5% or more --- that is 100s of millions of people.

Being left alone?! If Black folks were that brutal, we could have fired up the ovens, dropped some nukes, or committed genocide. White folks crossed oceans to start shit LOL! Who do you think is smarter Richard Nixon or Donald Trump?

I did think boys could benefit from rights of passage programs, particularly when there is no father in the home or the mother is constantly bad mouthing him and men in general, to teach them what it means to be a man and how you treat women. Otherwise, you learn from your environment. The streets for example taught me the more women you can get the more of a man you are. I'm sure that is why the guys posting here don't understand these incels and view them as wimps. The incell dudes, who spent more time online than in the real world probably learn how to treat women from porn sites and are then severely disappointed when actual women don't behave the way they do in porn videos... I dunno.

Hi Steve Jobs had not died I would give that idea some credence. Job was loaded and he certainly did not want to die. If the Earth's population lived in Texas, it would have a population less than NYC. Yeah, greed does out a damper on things... Maybe but know ones really knows the exactly number.