AutoSummarize

Specific Ideas
2023

01 Adam Lucas Autosummarize Hero
02 Adam Lucas Autosummarize
back cover
03 Adam Lucas Autosummarize
inside back cover
04 Adam Lucas Autosummarize
copyright page and first page of the table of contents
05 Adam Lucas Autosummarize
an example section opener
06 Adam Lucas Autosummarize
an example spread

AutoSummarize is an artist book by Jason Huff that features the top one-hundred, most downloaded copyright-free eBooks from Project Gutenberg circa March 2010, each book summarized down to a handful of sentences using Microsoft Word 2008's AutoSummarize function. The results are beautifully broken — absurd, funny, apt and poetical.

This redesigned second edition, published at the advent of major breakthroughs in AI systems, includes a foreword written by ChatGPT and a barcode-based image generated by DALL•E.

Typeset in Glossy Magazine by Mads Wildgaard and Everson Mono by Michael Everson.

1-color digital offset on 70# natural uncoated text and
100# white uncoated cover with silver foil stamp and 4-inch flaps
5.5  ×  8.5  ×  .7 inches
edition of 100, 2023

Artist
Jason Huff
Graphic designer
Adam Swift Lucas
Publisher
Specific Ideas
Type designer
Mads Wildgaard
Type designer
Michael Everson
Printer
Edition One
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