Honestly I hope this kicks off a self hosting revolution and we end up where we were before social media. Small individually focused websites built by people who want to share their world and passions but also are willing to put in the hard work to put it out there themself rather than just very quickly making a account that makes their voice dependent on a large advertising company

This is worse than I thought

What, exactly, are these “workbooks” for my book? AI pollution. Synthetic trash heaps floating in the online ocean. The authors aren’t real people, some asshole just fed the manuscript into an AI and didn’t check when it spit out nonsensical summaries. But it doesn’t matter, does it? A poor sod will click on the $9.99 purchase one day, and that’s all that’s needed for this scam to be profitable since the process is now entirely automatable and costs only a few cents. Pretty much all published authors are affected by similar scams, or will be soon.

It was murdered by weak willed individuals who valued convenience over freedom. Now we are simply tap dancing on its corpse.