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AI children's books, body horror edition

Hacker News · Jun 26, 2026, 1:15 AM · Also reported by 1 other source

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  • This makes the output easy to spot even if all the individual pieces are perfect facsimiles of what a human could create:
  • The 100,000 whys of AIlcamtuf·Jun 21Read full story In the article, I collated a list of about 220 AI-generated children’s books, but I deliberately sidestepped the question of quality.
  • But as a parent, curiosity eventually got the better of me, so I purchased one of these Amazon bestsellers.

This makes the output easy to spot even if all the individual pieces are perfect facsimiles of what a human could create:

The 100,000 whys of AIlcamtuf·Jun 21Read full story In the article, I collated a list of about 220 AI-generated children’s books, but 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 Amazon bestsellers. And before we dive in, I think that children’s encyclopedias are targeted with such ferocity for three reasons:

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