Letting Artificial Intelligence Steer the Boat?

Did you know that Amazon will let an author (computer operator?) publish up to three books day written completely by Artificial Intelligence?!!! ChatGPT and other programs make it easy to produce these works, and there are hundreds of YouTube videos showing would-be content creators how-to-do it videos.

I have a confession to make: Just for laughs, I did a book like that. I didn't write one word of it, merely giving the instructions to ChatGPT.  Had AI do the book cover and the formatting. I published under a pen name. It is a New Age, Touchy-Feely Self-Help book. Why not? 

The good news? The book didn't sell anywhere near as well as my human written books.

The bad news? Even though the book is pure drivel; it is well written within the self-help genre. I couldn't make myself read it, the new age epic has sold some copies, and has been favorably reviewed by people who don't know it was a prank. Nobody has written that it's an obvious AI creation.

I placed copies in a couple hospital libraries and the Westport train station, and when I returned the books were gone. It does have an attractive cover.

That's the end of the experiment for me, but thousands of people are submitting AI books, untouched by human writers, to Amazon and other outlets.

I do use AI to help edit my books, and I'll talk about that process in a future blog post.

This week's challenge: Try to find the above referenced Self Help book on Amazon. You'll never find it! You could try this is the search bar: New Age Drivel.

​Note: I did try that---didn't work

Below is a possible future collaborator.