For Christmas I received a fascinating gift from a good friend - my extremely own "very popular" book.

"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (excellent title) bears my name and bytes-the-dust.com my image on its cover, and it has glowing reviews.

Yet it was completely written by AI, with a few easy triggers about me supplied by my good friend Janet.

It's a fascinating read, and really amusing in parts. But it also meanders quite a lot, and is someplace in between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

It imitates my chatty design of writing, however it's also a bit repeated, and extremely verbose. It may have surpassed Janet's triggers in looking at information about me.

Several sentences begin "as a leading innovation reporter ..." - cringe - which might have been scraped from an online bio.

There's likewise a mystical, repeated hallucination in the type of my cat (I have no pets). And there's a metaphor on nearly 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 president Adir Mashiach, based in Israel, he informed me he had actually offered around 150,000 personalised books, primarily in the US, given 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 utilizes its own AI tools to generate them, based upon 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 additional copies.

There is currently no barrier to anyone creating one in any person's name, including celebs - although Mr Mashiach states there are guardrails around violent material. Each book consists of a printed disclaimer mentioning that it is imaginary, produced by AI, and created "entirely to bring humour and joy".

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