For Christmas I got an intriguing gift from a buddy - my extremely own "very popular" book.

"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (terrific title) bears my name and my image on its cover, and it has glowing evaluations.

Yet it was completely written by AI, with a couple of simple prompts about me supplied by my pal Janet.

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

It imitates my chatty style of writing, tandme.co.uk however it's likewise a bit repeated, and hb9lc.org very verbose. It may have surpassed Janet's prompts in looking at information about me.

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

There's also a strange, repetitive hallucination in the type of my cat (I have no pets). And there's a metaphor on almost every page - some more random than others.

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

When I contacted the president Adir Mashiach, based in Israel, he told me he had actually sold around 150,000 personalised books, primarily in the US, considering 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 uses its own AI tools to produce them, based on an open source large language model.

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

There is presently no barrier to anyone producing one in anybody's name, - although Mr Mashiach states there are guardrails around abusive content. Each book consists of a printed disclaimer specifying that it is fictional, created by AI, [forum.batman.gainedge.org](https://forum.batman.gainedge.org/index.php?action=profile