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

For Christmas I received an intriguing present from a good friend - my extremely own "best-selling" book.

"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (fantastic title) bears my name and my photo on its cover, timeoftheworld.date and it has glowing evaluations.

Yet it was completely composed by AI, with a couple of easy prompts about me supplied by my buddy Janet.

It's an interesting read, and uproarious in parts. But it also meanders rather a lot, and is someplace in between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

It simulates my chatty design of composing, but it's also a bit repetitive, and really verbose. It may have exceeded Janet's prompts in collating data about me.

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

There's likewise a strange, repetitive hallucination in the type of my cat (I have no family pets). And there's a metaphor on practically every page - some more random than others.

There are lots 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 actually sold around 150,000 customised books, mainly in the US, considering that pivoting from assembling AI-generated travel guides in June 2024.

A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller costs ₤ 26. The company uses its own AI tools to generate them, based upon an open source large language design.

I'm not asking you to buy my book. Actually you can't - just Janet, who produced it, can buy any additional copies.

There is presently no barrier to anyone creating one in anyone's name, consisting of celebrities - although Mr Mashiach says there are guardrails around abusive content. Each book includes a printed disclaimer mentioning that it is fictional, developed by AI, and [forum.batman.gainedge.org](https://forum.batman.gainedge.org/index.php?action=profile