Expanding the Bio Sphere

“My biography is 90 pages long and should be shorter. It combines facts about me that are widely available on the internet, such as where I grew up, with generic insights that could be true of anyone, like a horoscope spread over dozens of pages. ‘You cannot understand Kashmir Hill without understanding her contradictions,’ my biographer wrote, along with an excruciatingly long description of my elaborate coffee-making ritual. (Fact check: My husband does it.)” Kashmir Hill in the NYT (Gift Article): I Got Slopped. “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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