For Christmas I got an intriguing present from a pal - my very own "very popular" book.

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

Yet it was entirely written by AI, annunciogratis.net with a couple of simple prompts about me provided by my pal Janet.

It's a fascinating read, and very amusing in parts. But it likewise meanders rather a lot, and is somewhere in between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

It mimics my chatty design of writing, pattern-wiki.win but it's likewise a bit recurring, and extremely verbose. It may have exceeded Janet's prompts in looking at data about me.

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

There's also a mysterious, repetitive hallucination in the form of my cat (I have no animals). And there's a metaphor on nearly every page - some more random than others.

There are dozens of business online offering AI-book writing services. My book was from BookByAnyone.

When I contacted the primary executive Adir Mashiach, wiki.fablabbcn.org based in Israel, he informed me he had actually sold around 150,000 customised books, mainly in the US, because rotating from assembling AI-generated travel guides in June 2024.

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

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

There is currently no barrier to anybody creating one in anyone's name, including celebrities - although Mr Mashiach says there are guardrails around violent content. Each book consists of a printed disclaimer stating that it is imaginary, produced by AI, and created "entirely to bring humour and pleasure".

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