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1 How an AI written Book Shows why the Tech 'Horrifies' Creatives

For Christmas I received an interesting gift from a buddy - my really own "best-selling" book.

"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (great title) bears my name and my image on its cover, and it has radiant reviews.

Yet it was completely written by AI, with a few simple prompts about me supplied by my buddy Janet.

It's an intriguing read, and really funny in parts. But it likewise meanders quite a lot, and is somewhere between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

It simulates my chatty design of composing, but it's likewise a bit repetitive, and extremely verbose. It might have surpassed Janet's triggers in collecting data about me.

Several sentences begin "as a leading technology journalist ..." - cringe - which could have been scraped from an online bio.

There's also a mysterious, repeated 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 dozens of business online offering AI -book composing services. My book was from BookByAnyone.

When I contacted the president Adir Mashiach, based in Israel, he informed me he had sold around 150,000 customised books, mainly in the US, because rotating from compiling AI -generated travel guides in June 2024.

A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller expenses ₤ 26. The firm uses its own AI tools to create them, based on an open source big .

I'm not asking you to buy my book. Actually you can't - only Janet, who created it, can purchase any more copies.

There is presently no barrier to anybody developing one in any person's name, including celebs - although Mr Mashiach states there are guardrails around abusive material. Each book includes a printed disclaimer mentioning that it is fictional, created by AI, and developed "entirely to bring humour and delight".

Legally, the copyright comes from the firm, but Mr Mashiach worries that the item is meant as a "customised gag present", and the books do not get sold further.

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