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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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It imitates my chatty design of composing, but it's also a bit repetitive, and really verbose. It may have exceeded Janet's prompts in looking at 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 mysterious, repetitive hallucination in the type of my cat (I have no family pets). And there's a metaphor on practically every page - some more random than others.
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There are lots of companies online offering [AI](https://www.toiro-works.com)-book composing services. My book was from BookByAnyone.
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When I contacted the president Adir Mashiach, based in Israel, he informed me he had actually offered around 150,000 books, primarily in the US, because rotating from putting together [AI](https://cpascal.net)-generated travel guides in June 2024.
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I'm not asking you to buy my book. Actually you can't - only Janet, who created it, can purchase any more copies.
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Legally, the copyright belongs to the firm, however Mr Mashiach stresses that the item is meant as a "customised gag gift", and the books do not get offered even more.
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