How an AI written book shows why the technology frightens ‘creative’

I received an interesting gift from a friend for Christmas – my own “best selling” book.

“Tech-Spling for Damies” (Great Title) tolerates my name and my photo on its cover, and has shiny reviews.

Nevertheless it was fully written by AI, with some simple signs about me supplied by my friend Janet.

It is an interesting read, and is very funny in parts. But it also matters a lot, and somewhere is between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.

This mimics my writing style, but it is also a little repetition, and a lot of action. This can be beyond the signs of Janet in hitting the data about me.

Many sentences “start as a major technology journalist” start … ” – Cringe – which could be scraped from an online bio.

My cat also has a mysterious, frequent hallucinations (I have no pets). And almost every page has a metaphor – something more random than others.

Dozens of companies are offering online AI-book writing services. My book was from Bookbyanyone.

When I contacted the Chief Executive Respect Masiach located in Israel, he told me that he had sold around 150,000 individual books in the US, mainly since the pivoting from compiling AI-based travel guides in June 2024.

The price of a paperback copy of its own 240-priest longest seller costs £ 26. The firm uses its own AI tools to generate them, depending on an open source large language model.

I am not asking you to buy my book. Actually you can’t do – only Janet, who made it, can order further copies.

Currently there is no obstacle to make anyone in the name of someone, including celebrities – although Mr. Masyach says that there are railings around derogatory materials. Each book consists of a printed disclaimer stating that it is fictional, designed by AI, and “fully brought to humor and happiness” designed.

Legally, the copyright belongs to the firm, but Mr. Masiach insisted that the product has been intended as a “personal gag gift”, and the books are not sold further.

He expects to wider his limit, which produces various styles such as science-Fi, and perhaps offer an autobiography service. This consumer is a light form of AI-selling AI-related goods to human customers.

If this is also a bit terrible, like me, you write for a living. Not at least because it took less than a minute to generate it possibly, and it certainly sounds in some parts, like me.

Composer, writers, artists and actors around the world have expressed an alarm about their work, which are being used to train general AI devices that then brainstorm similar materials.

“We must be clear, when we are talking about data here, we actually work in the lives of human creators,” quite trained Ed Newton Rex, who respects the rights of creators for AI firms Campaign to do.

“This is books, this is the article, these are pictures. It works as an art. It is a record … The entire point of AI training is to learn how to do something and then to do so.”

In 2023, a song characterized by Canadian singers Drake and The Weekend’s AI-Janit voices went viral on social media before being pulled from streaming platforms as it was not their job and did not agree to it. It did not try to nominate the manufacturer of the track for the Grammy Award. And even though the artists were fake, it was still wildly popular.

“I don’t think the use of generic AI should be banned for creative purposes, but I think for these objectives that should be banned on the work of people without permission,” Says Shri Newton Rex. “AI can be very powerful, but let’s make it moral and fairly.”

Some organizations in the UK – including the BBC – have chosen AI developers to prevent their online content for training purposes. Others have decided to cooperate – Financial Times has partnered with the Chatp Creator Openai for example.

The UK government is considering an overhaul of the law that will allow AI developers to use the contents of the creators on the Internet to help them develop their models, until the right holders go out.

Ed Newton Rex described it as “insanity”.

He explains that AI can progress in areas such as defense, healthcare and logistics without trampling the work of writers, journalists and artists.

“All these things work without changing and changing the copyright law and ruining the country’s creative livelihood,” they argue.

A crossbench peer at the House of Lords is also firm against the removal of the copyright law for the Baronic Kidron, AI.

“Creative Industries Wealth Creators, 2.4 million jobs and perfectly joyous,” Bairon says, who is also an advisor to the Institute for Ethics at AI at Oxford University.

“The government is reducing one of its best performing industries on the vague promise of development.”

A government spokesperson said: “No steps will be taken until we are completely convinced that we have a practical plan that distributes each of our objectives: license to their content for the right holders To help give control, to train AI leading to high quality materials, and more transparency for the right holders from AI developers. “

Under the UK government’s new AI scheme, a national data library which has public data from several sources will also be made available to AI researchers.

The future of federal rules to control AI in the US is now in the air after President Trump returns to the presidency.

Biden in 2023 Signed an executive order Its purpose is to promote AI’s safety, with other things, it is necessary to share details of the functioning of their system with the US government before the firms in the sector are released.

But now it has happened Received by Trump. It remains to be seen what Trump will do instead, but it is said that he wants to face low regulation to the AI ​​sector.

It comes Many lawsuits AI continues in the US, against firms, and especially against OpenIA. He has been taken out by all from New York Times to authors, music labels and even a comedian.

They claim that AI firms broke the law when they took their content from the Internet without their consent, and used it to train their system.

AI companies argue that their actions come under “proper use” and therefore exempted. There are many factors that can form proper use-this is not a straight-agli definition. But the AI ​​sector is investigating how it collects training data and should it be paid for it.

If all this was not enough to consider, the Chinese AI firm Deepsek has shaken the region in the last week. This became the most downloaded free app on Apple’s US App Store.

Deepsek claims that it developed its technique for a fraction of the price of the choice of Openai. Its success has increased security concerns in the US, and threatens the current dominance of American.

As a career for me and as a writer, I think at this time, if I really want a “Bestseller” then I still have to write it myself. If anything, the tech-spling for dummy highlights current weakness in generic AI tools for large projects. It is full of inaccuracy and hallucinations, and reading in parts can be quite difficult because it is so long.

But given how quickly the technology is developing, I am not sure how long I can be convinced that my very slow human writing and editing skills are better.