Dubious, seemingly AI-generated Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave guidebooks flood Amazon Japan. Self-publishing system allows anyone to mass-produce “guideslop” with little risk
“Amazon provides sample pages for the books, but these contain nothing but walls of text, with no images and a notably verbose writing style.”
What happened
A search for Nintendo's new Fire Emblem game on Amazon Japan turns up about nine unofficial strategy guides with covers that appear AI-generated, even though no standalone official guide exists. Every review left on them gives one star.