A marketing agency reprinted an entire bestselling book, swapped the art for DALL-E, and outranked the original (waxy.org)
The bootleg sits on thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com versus the real dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com — full foreword, every neologism, every etymology, with a GPT 'Submit A Sorrow' generator bolted on. Two DMCA takedowns did nothing.
The twist a reader traced: the affiliate link points at the genuine book, tagged promptdigital-20. The theft monetizes through Amazon's own loosely gated program.
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