Auto Biography an AI-generated tool that produces fake author biographies, a commentary on something that we were growing increasingly concerned – the ease with which the nascent genAI technology let us manipulate reality.In other words: entirely plausible nonsense, of the terse language and prose that Wikipedia often reserves for the less-than-celebrities among us; the kind of subtle and insidious social proof that can make someone or something seem legitimate. Each biography was accompanied by photos (via Thispersondoesnotexist, a very notable project at the time). Naturally, this seems to be one of those “don’t invent the Torment Nexus” things where the actual shape of things makes my imagination here look innocent. The text game is happening – bots throughout X, Facebook, Reddit, and so on – but we also have full-fledged AI influencers complete with video and voice now.
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is a Sri Lankan science fiction author, data scientist, and civic technologist. His internationally recognized novels—Numbercaste, The Salvage Crew, and The Inhuman Race—blend speculative storytelling with explorations of technology, politics, and society, earning him a Nebula Award nomination.
Beyond writing, he is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Watchdog, Sri Lanka’s leading fact-checking and civic tech collective. He has also worked as a senior researcher at LIRNEasia, focusing on data, algorithms, and policy, where he developed projects in social networks, OSINT, and computational linguistics.
Yudhanjaya’s practice often extends into digital art and AI, experimenting with human-AI co-creation and data-driven narratives that push the boundaries of contemporary storytelling.
