For Christmas I received a fascinating gift from a buddy - my really own "very popular" book.

"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (excellent title) bears my name and my photo on its cover, and it has radiant evaluations.

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

It's an interesting read, and uproarious in parts. But it also meanders rather a lot, and is somewhere between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

It mimics my chatty style of composing, but it's also a bit repetitive, and extremely verbose. It may have gone beyond Janet's triggers in collecting information about me.

Several sentences start "as a leading innovation journalist ..." - cringe - which could have been scraped from an online bio.

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

There are lots of companies online offering AI-book composing services. My book was from BookByAnyone.

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