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For Christmas I got a fascinating gift from a pal - my very own "best-selling" book.
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"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" ([excellent](http://client-service.sk) title) bears my name and my photo on its cover, and it has radiant evaluations.
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Yet it was entirely composed by [AI](https://goldict.nl), with a couple of simple prompts about me provided by my pal Janet.
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It's an interesting read, and extremely funny in parts. But it likewise meanders rather a lot, and is someplace in between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.
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It imitates my chatty design of writing, however it's likewise a bit repetitive, and very verbose. It may have exceeded Janet's triggers in looking at information about me.
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Several sentences begin "as a leading technology reporter ..." - cringe - which could have been [scraped](https://sabinegruen.de) from an online bio.
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There's likewise a strange, repeated hallucination in the kind of my cat (I have no animals). 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](http://hmleague.org)-book composing [services](https://hcsxy2024.com). My book was from BookByAnyone.
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A paperback copy of your own 240-page long best-seller expenses ₤ 26. The company utilizes its own [AI](https://git.mcdevlab.com) tools to create them, based upon an open source large [language model](https://www.kobercemax.sk).
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I'm not asking you to buy my book. Actually you can't - just Janet, who created it, can buy any further copies.
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There is currently no barrier to anybody creating one in any person's name, including stars - although Mr Mashiach states there are guardrails around [abusive](https://arcpa.org.au) content. Each book consists of a printed disclaimer mentioning that it is fictional, developed by [AI](https://alpinefenceco.com), and developed "entirely to bring humour and joy".
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Legally, the copyright belongs to the company, but Mr Mashiach stresses that the item is meant as a "customised gag gift", and the books do not get sold even more.
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He hopes to broaden his variety, producing different genres such as sci-fi, and perhaps using an autobiography service. It's developed to be a light-hearted type of customer [AI](https://www.simplechatter.com) - selling [AI](http://parks-und-gaerten.de)-generated goods to human clients.
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China's DeepSeek [AI](https://git.nasp.fit) shakes market and damages America's swagger
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Ed Newton Rex explains this as "insanity".
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He explains that [AI](http://basburger.net) can make advances in locations like defence, healthcare and logistics without trawling the work of authors, journalists and artists.
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"All of these things work without going and changing copyright law and destroying the incomes of the country's creatives," he argues.
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Baroness Kidron, [utahsyardsale.com](https://utahsyardsale.com/author/ardentonga4/) a crossbench peer in your house of Lords, is likewise strongly against getting rid of copyright law for [AI](http://fsianh01.nayaa.co.kr).
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"The federal government is weakening one of its finest performing industries on the unclear promise of growth."
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In the US the future of federal guidelines to control [AI](https://git.andreaswittke.de) is now up in the air following President Trump's return to the presidency.
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But this has now been repealed by Trump. It remains to be seen what Trump will do instead, but he is stated to want the [AI](http://dugland.sbeccompany.fr) sector to deal with less [regulation](https://git.andreaswittke.de).
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The [AI](https://www.mundus-online.de) business argue that their actions fall under "reasonable use" and are for that reason exempt. There are a variety of aspects which can make up fair use - it's not a straight-forward definition. But the [AI](https://hologramm-technik.at) sector is under increasing examination over how it gathers training information and whether it need to be paying for it.
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But given how quickly the tech is progressing, I'm not sure for how long I can stay confident that my substantially slower human writing and editing abilities, are better.
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