A.I. Can Trick You, Warns Book That Hid A.I.’s Help Writing It

Andrea Colamedici invented a philosopher, presented him as an author and produced a book, secretly generated with the help of artificial intelligence, about manipulating reality in the digital age.

People were deceived. Accusations of dishonesty, bad ethics and even illegality flew.

But the man behind it, Mr. Colamedici, insists it was not a hoax; rather, he described it as a “philosophical experiment,” saying that it helps to show how A.I. will “slowly but inevitably destroy our…