AI children's books, body horror edition

AI-generated children's encyclopedias flooding Amazon are producing grotesque, body-horror imagery despite claims that frontier AI models have achieved advanced capabilities, with the bestselling books containing disturbing visual distortions that could negatively impact young readers. The author purchased one of these top-selling AI children's books and found it filled with nightmarish illustrations—contorted reflections, fused creatures, and grotesque anatomical anomalies—despite being published in mid-2026 when AI was supposedly surpassing PhD-level intelligence. These books are particularly prevalent because they sell well as gifts, require no original intellectual property, and exploit a market where buyers (gift-givers) don't scrutinize the actual content that readers (children) will see.