The Despoiler's First Book: "Engaging With AI, Reluctantly"
A plain-language guide for people who are wary of artificial intelligence, from The Despoiler's editor. It's on Amazon now in Kindle and paperback.
Disclosure: This book was written by Rich Vandall, The Despoiler's editor and publisher, and he earns money from its sales. This is a house announcement, not a review.
Engaging With AI, Reluctantly: A Despoiler Guide is now on sale on Amazon, in Kindle for $5.99 and in paperback for $17.99.
Who it's for
The book is written for readers who are wary of artificial intelligence and want a plain-language guide to it from someone who shares their doubts.
Why The Despoiler is selling a book
The Despoiler is free and paid for by readers and local sponsors. Book sales are one more way to keep it that way, and The Despoiler uses AI tools itself, disclosed where they're used, which is part of why the guide exists.
The book was drafted with help from Claude, an AI system made by Anthropic, and edited by Rich Vandall. The Despoiler covers Anthropic and other AI companies in its AI Power Rankings tracker on the same terms as every other company.
AI tools helped draft this note. Rich Vandall wrote and checked the final version. How we report.