Stephen Downes

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In anticipation of the (very real) Jacinda Ardern memoir A Different Kind of Power, this article reviews several AI-authored alternatives from 'Leading Quietly' to 'Power with Kind Purpose'. Unsurprisingly, they do not fare well (though one gets a rating of "9 out of 10 tear-sodden tissues"). Obviously, none of them could stand against the real thing. Perhaps when AI tools improve they may serve just as well, when there isn't a genuine memoir available (or, in some cases, to stand against an obviously self-serving memoir). But the practice Amazon is perpetrating - allowing these titles to try to fool the reader in to buying one thing when they intended to but another - is underhanded. It's the sort of thing an unethical corporation would do. Via Kate Bowles.

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