If it were a “Black Mirror” episode it would be too on the nose. Renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” hasn’t even been out for a single day, and Amazon is already peddling AI-generated copycats.

One was even listed days prior to the release of the genuine article, suggesting a well-timed effort to rip sales away from the author on the book’s release.

The slop was first flagged by Doctorow himself, who posted a frustrated screenshot of one of the offending knockoffs on X-formerly-Twitter. “Love that the slop merchants are using my book to (further) enshittify Amazon, and that Amazon’s terrible QA standards is letting ’em do it,” the author fumed.

His screenshot shows a listing for a “self-help” paperback book listed for one dollar less than the kindle version of D

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