Comment by maxbond
15 hours ago
I understand being okay with a book being generated (some of the text I published in this manual [1] is generated), I can imagine not caring that the author lied about their use of AI, but I really don't understand the suggestion I write a book about a subject I just told you I'm clueless about. I feel like there's some kind of epistemic nihilism here that I can't fathom. Or maybe you meant it as a barb and it's not that deep? You tell me I guess.
I would rather care whether there is a book at all and whether it is useful.
> I write a book about a subject I just told you I'm clueless about
Use AI. Even if you use AI, it's still a lot of work. Or write a book about why people shouldn't let AI write their books.
I'm also concerned whether it is useful! That's why I'm not gunnuh read it after receiving a strong contrary indicator (which was less the use of AI than the dishonesty around it). That's also why I try to avoid sounding off on topics I'm not educated in (which is too say, why I'm not writing a book about Zig).
Remember - I am using AI and publishing the results. I just linked you to them!
> I'm also concerned whether it is useful!
So you could do everyone a favour by giving a sufficiently detailed review, possibly with recommendations to the author how to improve the book. Definitely more useful than speculating about the author's integrity.
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