Written by humourist and musician Sergio Conforti (known as Rocco Tanica), Non siamo mai stati sulla Terra (We Never Went to Earth, 2022) claims to be the first book in Italy to have been written with the help of an AI software, credited as co-author. Since the software is able to learn literary styles and to reproduce them, but it does not easily separate grammatical accuracy from narrative plausibility, the results of this human-machine co-authorship are inevitably humorous. To quote the book’s preface, the computer-generated co-author is like “a museum visitor who cannot tell a painting from a photograph”.