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Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.

NYTimes Technology • Thu, 16 Jul 2026

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon.

Who is behind all this drivel?

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