For Christmas I received an interesting gift from a buddy - my extremely own "very popular" book.
"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (excellent title) bears my name and my image on its cover, and it has radiant reviews.
Yet it was completely written by AI, with a couple of simple prompts about me provided by my pal Janet.
It's an interesting read, oke.zone and very funny in parts. But it also meanders quite a lot, and is someplace in between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.
It mimics my chatty style of writing, however it's also a bit repeated, and extremely verbose. It might have gone beyond Janet's prompts in collecting data about me.
Several sentences begin "as a leading technology journalist ..." - cringe - which might have been scraped from an online bio.
There's also 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 dozens of business online AI-book writing services. My book was from BookByAnyone.
When I contacted the chief executive Adir Mashiach, based in Israel, he told me he had sold around 150,000 customised books, mainly 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 create them, based upon an open source large language design.
I'm not asking you to purchase my book. Actually you can't - just Janet, who created it, [forum.batman.gainedge.org](https://forum.batman.gainedge.org/index.php?action=profile
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