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The dude running this thing sells conspiracy-theorist books on Amazon that also utilize AI. He's been scrubbing a lot of his online presence as well.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/willy-wonka-event-glasgow-billy-coull-ai-vaccine-conspiracy-books-1234976876/

Since the Wonka fiasco, Coull has taken steps to scrub various social accounts, taking down both a LinkedIn profile and a YouTube channel where it appears he presented himself as something of a business guru and life coach. His personal site, also deleted, touted a number of dubious academic degrees and said he worked as a consultant for a brand called Empowerity, which is now defunct. As of 2021, he was co-directing a Glasgow foodbank that he claimed fed thousands of families a month that, too, no longer exists, and some Glaswegians suspect it was not entirely above board.

While deleting much of the material that would lead internet sleuths from the Wonka incident to these earlier projects, Coull has, perhaps surprisingly, not shut down the entirely AI-spawned House of Illuminati business. The companys Facebook page continues to promise refunds, and some customers say theyve gotten their money back. Neither has he pulled down his Instagram account, which contains only a few posts hyping independently published books available on Amazon. These include titles such as Selling Innocence, a novel about a human trafficking survivor who navigates a treacherous landscape filled with politicians, clergymen, celebrities, and billionaires. The language hints at themes of the QAnon conspiracist movement and misinformation about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The 16 books on Coulls Amazon author page were all published in the summer of 2023 some of them on the very same day. The synopsis for each is AI-generated, according to GPTZero analysis, and so is the text between the covers, as one irate reviewer has complained. Coull couldnt even be bothered to pen his own author bio, which declares him a rising star in the literary world who weaves spellbinding tales that delve into the mysterious realms of fictional thrillers and gripping conspiracies. While some of the stories are generic puzzle-driven plots in the vein of The DaVinci Code, others like Selling Innocence are geared toward paranoid right-wing politics. Operation Inoculation, for example, promises a conspiratorial journey into vaccination truth related to the so-called deep state, in which the carefully constructed facade of the vaccination campaign begins to crumble.