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Skeptical as I am about AI, if a company is going to implement it, it ought to at least be implemented well. Giving people a more or less useless tool isn't the answer to anything.
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If R.C.'s sample is all it is, it's silly. You can just plop an ebook on a background and get the same effect, if not better.

If they're manipulating images, particularly models, ships/cars, we need to know the source (maybe this is the real reason why they've asked if covers are AI manipulated in the past? Maybe they're pulling them form thousands of already created AI covers?)

It's simplistic and primitive. I tried another, less complex prompt and received a useless image.

R.C.
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If R.C.'s sample is all it is, it's silly. You can just plop an ebook on a background and get the same effect, if not better.

If they're manipulating images, particularly models, ships/cars, we need to know the source (maybe this is the real reason why they've asked if covers are AI manipulated in the past? Maybe they're pulling them form thousands of already created AI covers?)
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I think they've actually had this before. It looked to me as if it wasn't really for books, but I can see how having a book in the living room setting might work. It doesn't make me want to go out and buy the book anymore than just the cover would, though. I'm not sure what the point is.

Oh, and then I read the prompts. Yeah, AI ignored what you wanted pretty much completely and just gave you the generic background they've already been using for other kinds of products in the past.
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I just looked, and the Amazon ADs page has a link to a page titled Creative Tools - Image Generator.

From the guidelines:

Image description guidelines
The image description is used to generate AI images for your ad. After you select a product from your ad to feature, you can optionally add an image description for more specific generated image results. If you choose to add a description, keep the following guidelines in mind.

Add details
Summarize the image that you envision by using descriptive words. The more details, the better.
Good - Product placed in a living room on a table with palm trees in the corner and large windows in the background.
Bad - Living room.

Add context
If you're using a word or phrase that has multiple meanings, add extra context for more accurate results.
Good - Product in a glass fruit bowl that contains oranges.
Bad - Product in an orange fruit bowl.

Set the tone
Use emotional words to explain the look and feel you'd like to achieve in your image to match your brand identity.
Good - Calm sunset at the beach with relaxing waves and tall palm trees waving in the wind.
Bad - Sunset at the beach.

Experiment
Try describing your vision in a few ways, using slightly different words or phrasing until you achieve the image results you want.
Good - Product placed on a wooden table in a well-lit room with home decorations in the background.
Good - Product placed on a marble table in a room with large windows and decorative vases and tropical plants in the background.

There is a new section in the terms and agreements.

I did not find which AI generator they have chosen to use.

I experimented... First impression: Simplistic and primitive.

 Nice pictures, but not close to the prompt.



R.C.

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I don't have that email yet. Does it say anything about the whose bot they licensed? It might just have the normal training data used by that company. But it's hard to know. Training from other people's covers could create a huge mess.

I did use some images I created with Shutterstock's AI for the first run of new AMS sponsored brand ads that required an image other than a book cover. Ironically, given how much hype there was about how much better the new ads would perform, mine performed worse than the old sponsored brand ads. I dumped all but one of them because the ROI wasn't worth it. Even the one I kept doesn't perform as well as the old sponsored brand ad without the image.
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Amazon just announced an AI image generator for AMS ads.

I just got the email.

What it doesn't say is what the Bot got trained on.

And that bothers me. Because space ships for Space Opera books are few and far between, and if they're using my covers to train the Bot, I'm going to be really worried the ads they spit out will start using elements of ships I own the sole rights to.

Anyone know any more about this?
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: R.I.P. Kindle Vella
« Last post by writeway on November 05, 2024, 04:28:45 AM »
I never used Vella. I could tell when it started that it wasn't gonna be much because Amazon started off relying on authors to do all the legwork with gathering readers, advertising, etc. I'm not shocked it shut down but shocked it did NOW. I knew in my heart that it wouldn't last much longer though especially when I saw how bad the bonuses got and when they started that new Vellys thing, *eye roll*, it just reeked of desperation.

That said, I feel sorry for any author who this negatively impacts.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: R.I.P. Kindle Vella
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on October 30, 2024, 11:00:50 PM »
The fact that people had to pay much more for the Kindle Vella installments than it would have for an equivalent ebook was an important factor in the program's demise. When I was checking out Vella, I noticed a lot of reviewers complaining about that very thing, with comments like, "I liked the story, but it cost too much."

Reviews at the time also revealed another problem--many of the participating writers weren't consistent enough or fast enough to satisfy readers. What they probably should have done was have the whole serial written before they started so that they could release smoothly, but a lot clearly didn't do that.

On the whole, I'm surprised Vella lasted as long as it did.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: R.I.P. Kindle Vella
« Last post by LilyBLily on October 30, 2024, 10:10:18 AM »
I read parts of a book by a favorite author in Vella, but since she was writing it as she went, I was reading too fast for her. That's the reality for a voracious genre reader. We gulp books down. A long, drawn-out serial is not for us.

How often were the installments posted, and how big?

Honestly don't remember. Short chapters. It was an interesting story, but I did the math about paying for it, and that also discouraged me. Plus, to be honest, I didn't really feel I understood the system of free versus paid. There were credits? It reminded me of visiting a casino and being given some free chips.
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