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For Christmas I got an intriguing gift from a friend - my extremely own "very popular" book.
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"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (great title) bears my name and my photo on its cover, and it has .
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Yet it was completely written by [AI](https://www.jbizmedia.com), with a few basic prompts about me supplied by my good friend Janet.
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It's an intriguing read, and very funny in parts. But it also meanders rather a lot, and is someplace in between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.
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It simulates my chatty design of composing, but it's likewise a bit repeated, and extremely verbose. It might have surpassed Janet's triggers in looking at information about me.
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Several sentences start "as a leading technology journalist ..." - cringe - which could have been scraped from an online bio.
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There's also a strange, repeated hallucination in the form of my feline (I have no family pets). And there's a metaphor on nearly every page - some more random than others.
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I'm not asking you to purchase my book. Actually you can't - just Janet, who produced it, can purchase any additional copies.
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Legally, the copyright belongs to the firm, but Mr Mashiach worries that the product is intended as a "customised gag gift", and the books do not get offered even more.
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