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 <br>For Christmas I received a fascinating present from a buddy - my extremely own "best-selling" book.<br>
 <br>"Tech-Splaining for Dummies" (great title) bears my name and my picture on its cover,  [wiki.lafabriquedelalogistique.fr](https://wiki.lafabriquedelalogistique.fr/Utilisateur:DamianLwu62) and it has [radiant evaluations](https://tridentbuildingandroofing.co.uk).<br>
 <br>Yet it was completely written by [AI](https://idapmr.com), with a couple of simple triggers about me supplied by my pal Janet.<br>
 <br>It's an intriguing read, and extremely amusing in parts. But it also meanders rather a lot, and is someplace between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes.<br>
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 <br>Several sentences begin "as a leading technology journalist ..." - cringe - which might have been scraped from an online bio.<br>
 <br>There's likewise a mystical, repeated hallucination in the kind of my cat (I have no animals). And there's a metaphor on nearly every page - some more random than others.<br>
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 <br>I'm not asking you to purchase my book. Actually you can't - just Janet, who produced it, can buy any additional copies.<br>
 <br>There is presently no barrier to anybody developing one in any person's name, including celebrities - although Mr Mashiach states there are guardrails around abusive content. Each book includes a printed disclaimer stating that it is fictional, produced by [AI](https://r1agency.com), and created "exclusively to bring humour and happiness".<br>
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 <br>DeepSeek declares that it developed its innovation for a fraction of the price of the likes of OpenAI. Its success has actually  issues in the US, and threatens American's existing dominance of the sector.<br>
 <br>As for me and a profession as an author, I believe that at the moment, if I truly desire a "bestseller" I'll still need to compose it myself. If anything, Tech-Splaining for Dummies highlights the current weakness in generative [AI](http://cocotiersrodrigues.com) tools for bigger jobs. It has lots of errors and hallucinations, and it can be rather challenging to read in parts due to the fact that it's so long-winded.<br>
 <br>But given how rapidly the tech is developing, I'm uncertain for how long I can stay positive that my substantially slower human writing and modifying skills, are better.<br>
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