How an AI-Driven Publishing Model Enabled Thad McIlroy's New Book

It's not out of the question that a book about AI might have been written using AI, McIlroy told PW-and in fact, a small portion of the book did employ AI tools. "I would say that about 1% of the book overall was touched by AI," he explained, pointing out a section in which he leads readers through an exercise of chatting with Claude.ai, as well as a section demonstrating how he used ChatGPT to create all the alt-text for the images to make the book accessible, thus making them more accessible to people with visual impairments.

But as for using AI to write the book, McIlroy said, he didn't. Nevertheless, he surmised that Ingram's filters had mistakenly identified the book as having beengenerated using AI - a mistake indicative of the AI moment we now find ourselves in.