{"id":221492,"date":"2026-03-09T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/pittsburgh-author-among-writers-who-encountered-ai-generated-versions-of-original-books\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:35:10","slug":"pittsburgh-author-among-writers-who-encountered-ai-generated-versions-of-original-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/pittsburgh-author-among-writers-who-encountered-ai-generated-versions-of-original-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh author among writers who encountered AI-generated versions of original books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh author among writers who encountered AI-generated versions of original books<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wesa.fm\/arts-culture\/2026-03-09\/pittsburgh-author-ai-generated-books<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-09 05:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.wesa.fm<\/a><\/p>\n

Former Wall Street Journal reporter John Miller is a lifelong baseball fan. He grew up in Belgium with \u2014 thanks to family in Maryland \u2014 a particular fondness for the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

More recently, Miller, who lives in Pittsburgh, spent three full years researching and writing a biography of legendary Orioles manager Earl Weaver. He dug through newspaper archives and crisscrossed the country to conduct more than 200 interviews with people who knew, or knew about, the famously argumentative yet innovative skipper.<\/p>\n

“The Last Manager,” Miller\u2019s first book, was published by Simon & Schuster in March 2025, just in time for baseball season. But as a short search on Amazon revealed, it quickly had company.<\/p>\n

\u201cI punch in the title and then, to my surprise, there were like nine different versions of my book and none of them were by me,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n

The books had titles like \u201cEarl Weaver: The Science of Rage,\u201d \u201cThe Life and Legacy of Earl Weaver\u201d and \u2014 this one\u2019s in German \u2014 \u201cEarl Weaver Biografie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earl Weaver retired from baseball in 1986 and died in 2013. Improbably, eight of these other books about him were published in the couple of months after Miller\u2019s \u201cLast Manager\u201d came out; one actually hit Amazon a couple weeks before.<\/p>\n

The books, Miller determined, were all created by generative artificial intelligence. As far as he could tell, none of them outright plagiarized \u201cThe Last Manager\u201d or any other writing about Weaver, and most appeared to be full-length volumes.<\/p>\n

Rather, it seemed that whoever was prompting the AI software to spit out these volumes about the Hall of Famer, each probably generated in seconds or minutes, were simply exploiting the success of the critically acclaimed biography Miller had sweated over for three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re surfing on the attention that my book generated and they’re trying to make a buck,\u201d said Miller, who’s also head baseball coach at Allderdice High…<\/p>\n

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