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How an AI-written book shows why the tech ‘terrifies’ creatives<\/strong>
Full article: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp8k5gezykyo<\/a><\/p>\n

For Christmas I received an interesting gift from a friend – my very own “best-selling” book.<\/p>\n

“Tech-Splaining for Dummies” (great title) bears my name and my photo on its cover, and it has glowing reviews.<\/p>\n

Yet it was entirely written by AI, with a few simple prompts about me supplied by my friend Janet.<\/p>\n

It’s an interesting read, and very funny in parts. But it also meanders quite a lot, and is somewhere between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.<\/p>\n

It mimics my chatty style of writing, but it’s also a bit repetitive, and very verbose. It may have gone beyond Janet’s prompts in collating data about me.<\/p>\n

Several sentences begin “as a leading technology journalist\u2026” \u2013 cringe \u2013 which could have been scraped from an online bio.<\/p>\n

There’s also a mysterious, repeated hallucination in the form of my cat (I have no pets). And there’s a metaphor on almost every page \u2013 some more random than others.<\/p>\n

There are dozens of companies online offering AI-book writing services. My book was from BookByAnyone.<\/p>\n

When I contacted the chief executive Adir Mashiach, based in Israel, he told me he had sold around 150,000 personalised books, mainly in the US, since pivoting from compiling AI-generated travel guides in June 2024.<\/p>\n

A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller costs \u00a326. The firm uses its own AI tools to generate them, based on an open source large language model.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bookbyanyone.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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