For Christmas I received an intriguing present from a friend - my extremely own "best-selling" book.
"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (terrific title) bears my name and my image on its cover, and it has glowing reviews.
Yet it was totally written by AI, with a few basic triggers about me provided by my buddy Janet.
It's a fascinating read, and uproarious 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 style of composing, however it's likewise a bit recurring, and really verbose. It may have exceeded Janet's triggers in looking at data about me.
Several sentences begin "as a leading technology journalist ..." - cringe - which might have been scraped from an online bio.
There's likewise a mysterious, repetitive hallucination in the kind of my feline (I have no pets). And there's a metaphor on almost 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, generally in the US, given that rotating from assembling AI-generated travel guides in June 2024.
A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller expenses ₤ 26. The company utilizes its own AI tools to create 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 produced it, can purchase any additional copies.
There is currently no barrier to anybody developing one in any person's name, consisting of celebs - although Mr Mashiach says there are guardrails around abusive content. Each book includes a printed disclaimer mentioning that it is imaginary, created by AI, and developed "entirely to bring humour and joy".
Legally, the copyright belongs to the company, however Mr Mashiach stresses that the item is meant as a "customised gag gift", [users.atw.hu](http://users.atw.hu/samp-info-forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=f48a03d578093c3f17f5a665759a48fe&action=profile
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