Tusind tak Hans. Thanks Diana. I’d missed the Amazon.com review.
It’s really frustrating that Amazon (& others) can’t give us an “AI” warning or show more of the book. Glad I didn’t risk £7 for a paperback copy! Thanks again, Austin From: Origami <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Papirfoldning.dk Sent: 16 September 2024 21:05 To: The Origami Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Origami] Mathematical Origami - Jaime B Weaver (not David Mitchell) Den 16. sep. 2024 kl. 21.23 skrev Austin Day via Origami <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: Has anyone bought Jaime B Weaver’s “Mathematical Origami”? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D4HTMW2R https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4HTMW2R The cover looks like an AI created image of origami + mathematics, including an impossible pair of scissors. The table of contents also seems strange & repetitive. Is this a real book or is it AI generated? If you read the sole review on amazon.com, one * out of *****, it certainly sounds like the book is an AI generated text: "The title of this book is: "Mathematical Origami: The Art and Science of Geometric Folding". The book has no math, no science, and terrible instructions. It's merely a collections of geometric shapes you can make with English-only instructions and no illustrations on how to do the folding steps. The only visuals are the final products for each shape, and those are useless because you don't get to see how it was made. I would say this book was a waste of money, but it wasn't because I got it for free from Kindle credits, thank goodness." Nor the reviewer nor the preview provides samples of the instructions, but text-only instructions are not easy to make; I've worked on instructions for blind people. The preview seems like general, abstract nonsense. Not per se incorrect, but somewhat uninformative, off, and never concrete. Like Austin Day I would be happy to hear from people who have actually read the book, and to see an example of the instructions. I have tried a couple of times to ask ChatGPT for instructions on how to fold something, and it provides those as text, and they are completely incoherent, as you would expect from a large language model that can generate text in a very nice style and using alle the right words, but with zero comprehension of the contents. My word for this would be the same as the reviewer's: "terrible". Best regards, Hans Hans Dybkjær, papirfoldning.dk
