Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.
The New York Times • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Kashmir Hill discovered a biography about herself published on Amazon nearly a year ago, written by an author she had never heard of and published by an unfamiliar company.
- The 90-page biography combines publicly available facts with generic and fabricated content, showing signs of being generated by artificial intelligence.
- The author, John Crane Miller, released multiple biographies of journalists within a single week, all appearing to be mass-produced with little original research or contact with the subjects.
- Similar mass-produced biographies exist for other celebrities, such as Dan Rather, who also found his biography online without prior knowledge but reportedly enjoyed reading it despite the unusual circumstances.
- These AI-generated biographies have received negative reviews criticizing their quality, highlighting concerns about automated content in the publishing industry.
