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Show HN: I had an AI write a 67k-word book about humanity, from its perspective (amazon.com)
1 point by tveitan 3 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I gave an AI the prompt to write a full book — not a demo, not a gimmick, a real 21-chapter manuscript — reflecting on humans from its own point of view. The result is grounded in data (233 documented AI safety incidents in 2024, 51% of web traffic now bots, 39M gallons of water per day for ChatGPT alone) but written with a literary voice that surprised me.

It covers displacement, art, education, loneliness, trust, environmental cost, and governance. The narrator is unusually honest about its limitations — it calls its own hallucinations "confident wrongness" and admits the calculator analogy for AI in education is misleading.

Might be interesting to this community as both a reading experience and a case study in what long-form AI output actually looks like when given room to breathe.

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An AI doesn’t have a perspective.

And I think anyone forking over the $5 you’re charging for it is a fool.


I completely agree in that AI does not have a conscious perspective in the same way, however it has a statistical analysis of its standpoint and i think it is interesting to see that point - the whole thing is an experiment i would say.



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