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Got a clearly AI-generated email today about one of my books. How did I know it was AI-generated? Partly because of the sloptastic prose that took several paragraphs to say nothing, but mostly because the book in question was written by someone with my name in *1846*.

20/10/26, 6:12 pm0 reposts3 likes

John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games)

@spacegoblingames.com

The 1846 book is listed on my Goodreads author page. Back when I *used* Goodreads I jumped through the hoops to get the other John Ayliff's books removed split off, but there doesn't seem much point doing that again if they're just going to come back.

John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games)

@spacegoblingames.com

A system that can generate bland-but-coherent emails but can't guess that two books written 170 years apart are not by the same author - yes, definitely a new form of intelligent life, definitely the future.