For Christmas I received an interesting gift from a friend - my extremely own "best-selling" book.
"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (excellent title) bears my name and my picture on its cover, and it has radiant evaluations.
Yet it was totally written by AI, utahsyardsale.com with a couple of basic prompts about me supplied by my good friend Janet.
It's a fascinating read, and uproarious in parts. But it also meanders rather a lot, and is somewhere between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.
It mimics my chatty design of composing, but it's likewise a bit repetitive, and very verbose. It might have exceeded Janet's prompts in collecting information about me.
Several sentences start "as a leading innovation reporter ..." - cringe - which could have been scraped from an online bio.
There's likewise a mysterious, repetitive hallucination in the type of my cat (I have no pets). And there's a metaphor on practically every page - some more random than others.
There are lots of business online offering AI-book writing services. My book was from BookByAnyone.
When I called the chief executive Adir Mashiach, based in Israel, he told me he had sold around 150,000 personalised books, primarily in the US, because pivoting from compiling AI-generated travel guides in June 2024.
A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller costs ₤ 26. The firm utilizes its own AI tools to produce them, based on an open source large language model.
I'm not asking you to purchase my book. Actually you can't - only Janet, who created it, can buy any more copies.
There is currently no barrier to anybody producing one in anyone's name, including celebrities - although Mr Mashiach says there are guardrails around abusive material. Each book includes a printed disclaimer stating that it is imaginary, developed by AI, and created "solely to bring humour and joy".
Legally, the copyright belongs to the firm, however Mr Mashiach worries that the product is planned as a "customised gag present", and the books do not get offered further.
He intends to broaden his range, producing different categories such as sci-fi, and maybe using an autobiography service. It's designed to be a light-hearted form of consumer AI - offering AI-generated products to human consumers.
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