For Christmas I received a fascinating gift from a friend - my extremely own “best-selling” book.

“Tech-Splaining for Dummies” (great title) bears my name and my photo on its cover, and it has radiant reviews.

Yet it was entirely composed by AI, with a couple of easy prompts about me supplied by my friend Janet.

It’s an interesting read, and extremely amusing in parts. But it also meanders quite a lot, and is somewhere in between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

It imitates my chatty style of writing, but it’s likewise a bit repetitive, and very verbose. It might have exceeded Janet’s triggers in looking at information about me.

Several sentences begin “as a leading innovation reporter …” - cringe - which could have been scraped from an online bio.

There’s likewise a mysterious, repetitive hallucination in the form of my cat (I have no animals). And there’s a metaphor on almost 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, based in Israel, he informed me he had offered around 150,000 customised books, generally in the US, considering that rotating from putting together AI-generated travel guides in June 2024.

A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller expenses ₤ 26. The company 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 - only Janet, who created it, can order any additional copies.

There is currently no barrier to anyone creating one in any person’s name, consisting of celebrities - although Mr Mashiach says there are guardrails around abusive material. Each book includes a printed disclaimer mentioning that it is fictional, developed by AI, and designed “entirely to bring humour and delight”.

Legally, the copyright comes from the firm, however Mr Mashiach worries that the product is intended as a “personalised gag present”, and the books do not get sold further.

He intends to broaden his range, producing different categories such as sci-fi, and possibly offering an autobiography service. It’s designed to be a light-hearted type of customer AI - selling AI-generated items to human customers.

It’s likewise a bit terrifying if, like me, you compose for a living. Not least due to the fact that it most likely took less than a minute to generate, junkerhq.net and it does, definitely in some parts, sound similar to me.

Musicians, authors, artists and actors worldwide have revealed alarm about their work being used to train generative AI tools that then churn out similar material based upon it.

“We must be clear, when we are talking about data here, we actually imply human creators’ life works,” states Ed Newton Rex, founder of Fairly Trained, which projects for AI firms to regard creators’ rights.

“This is books, this is articles, this is images. It’s works of art. It’s records … The entire point of AI training is to discover how to do something and then do more like that.”

In 2023 a tune including AI-generated voices of Canadian vocalists Drake and The Weeknd went viral on social networks before being pulled from streaming platforms since it was not their work and they had not consented to it. It didn’t stop the track’s developer trying to nominate it for a Grammy award. And despite the fact that the artists were phony, it was still hugely popular.

“I do not think making use of generative AI for creative functions must be banned, however I do think that generative AI for these functions that is trained on individuals’s work without approval need to be prohibited,” Mr Newton Rex adds. “AI can be extremely powerful but let’s construct it morally and relatively.”

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