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For Christmas I received an intriguing gift from a buddy - my really own "very popular" book.
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"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (great title) bears my name and my image on its cover, and it has glowing evaluations.
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Yet it was completely written by [AI](https://51.75.215.219), with a couple of basic prompts about me provided by my pal Janet.
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It's an interesting read, and really amusing in parts. But it likewise meanders rather a lot, and is somewhere in between a [self-help book](https://panperu.pe) and a stream of anecdotes.
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It mimics my chatty design of composing, but it's also a bit recurring, and really verbose. It might have surpassed Janet's prompts in collating data about me.
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Several sentences begin "as a leading innovation journalist ..." - cringe - which could have been scraped from an online bio.
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There's also a mystical, repeated hallucination in the type of my feline (I have no family pets). And there's a [metaphor](http://portododia.com) on nearly every page - some more random than others.
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There are lots of business online offering [AI](http://47.108.239.202:3001)-book composing [services](https://shelterasset.com). My book was from BookByAnyone.
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When I called the Mashiach, based in Israel, he informed me he had actually offered around 150,000 customised books, generally in the US, considering that rotating from [putting](http://175.154.160.233237) together [AI](http://clintbakerphotography.com)-generated travel guides in June 2024.
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A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller costs ₤ 26. The firm uses its own [AI](https://snimanjedronom.co.rs) tools to create them, based upon an open source big language design.
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I'm not asking you to purchase my book. Actually you can't - only Janet, who developed it, [vmeste-so-vsemi.ru](http://www.vmeste-so-vsemi.ru/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:EarlGooge72) can order any additional copies.
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There is currently no barrier to anyone developing one in any person's name, including celebs - although Mr [Mashiach](http://www.kalsetmjolk.se) states there are guardrails around violent content. Each book includes a printed disclaimer specifying that it is fictional, [oke.zone](https://oke.zone/profile.php?id=301811) developed by [AI](https://www.holzmindenliebe.de), and developed "entirely to bring humour and happiness".
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Legally, the copyright belongs to the firm, however Mr Mashiach worries that the product is planned as a "personalised gag present", [annunciogratis.net](http://www.annunciogratis.net/author/uhekarolyn6) and the books do not get sold further.
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He wants to expand his range, creating various categories such as sci-fi, and possibly using an autobiography service. It's developed to be a light-hearted type of consumer [AI](https://meetelectra.com) - selling [AI](https://www.rocioortega.mx)-generated items to human clients.
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It's likewise a bit terrifying if, like me, you write for a living. Not least because it most likely took less than a minute to produce, and it does, definitely in some parts, sound much like me.
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"This is books, this is posts, this is images. It's works of art. It's records ... The whole point of [AI](https://memorial-genweb.org) training is to find out how to do something and then do more like that."
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DeepSeek: The Chinese [AI](http://jashop.biiisolutions.com) app that has the world talking
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China's DeepSeek [AI](https://lanuit.ro) shakes industry and damages America's swagger
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Ed Newton Rex describes this as "madness".
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He mentions that [AI](https://vanatta.xyz) can make advances in areas like defence, health care and logistics without trawling the work of authors, reporters and artists.
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"All of these things work without going and altering copyright law and destroying the livelihoods of the nation's creatives," he argues.
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"The government is weakening one of its finest performing markets on the vague pledge of growth."
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In 2023 Biden signed an executive order that intended to boost the safety of [AI](https://syunnka.co.jp) with, amongst other things, companies in the sector needed to share details of the functions of their systems with the US federal government before they are released.
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But this has actually now been repealed by Trump. It remains to be seen what Trump will do instead, but he is said to desire the [AI](https://zhang2020.cn) sector to deal with less guideline.
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When it comes to me and a career as an author, I think that at the minute, if I actually want a "bestseller" I'll still have to compose it myself. If anything, Tech-Splaining for Dummies highlights the present weakness in generative [AI](https://palsyworld.com) tools for bigger projects. It has lots of errors and hallucinations, and it can be quite [difficult](https://emplealista.com) to check out in parts because it's so long-winded.
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