Who actually thinks that what the world really needs right now is MORE copied crap books about “the human experience” created by algorithms that WILL NEVER KNOW what the “human experience” is actually like? That’s why we now have Getty Images suing Midjourney AI image generation software for copyright theft after they stole all sorts of images, including those of real people, to make their “creations.” Of course, that’s easy to say until it’s YOUR book ideas and text that’s stolen. What amazes me more is how anyone thinks that using AI text generation to write a book is a good idea. Way to make the world a “better place.” What a wonderful use of technology. What the AI tool provides is a massive copy-paste job of text stolen from all over the internet and thrown in a blender with pattern recognition tools to give you, essentially, the most common tropes online based on what you entered for a prompt, rendering your creation un-original, which is effectively the death of your “new” story appeal.Ĭongratulations AI tools, for not only do we still have to wade through the blatant plagiarism novels rewritten and self-published by real people everyday on Amazon, but now you’ve allowed all the shortcut seekers to produce thousands of randomized copies of unoriginal shit, and all in LESS TIME. I’ve seen what these AI text generators do, and the only impressive thing about them to me is their processing speed. Now if technology allowed the parrot to consciously put its thoughts into text, THAT’s the novel I would buy.

Will the “novel” be any good? I suppose that depends on what your criteria of “good” is, but in my humble opinion: Within some minutes depending on the server speed, you’ll get a bunch of text long enough to technically be considered “a novel draft.”

But before I get to all that, let’s just recap the current state of events:īasically, a bunch of people want you to think that the worst thing that could happen to the publishing industry has finally happened:Įven a parrot can now “write” a “novel.” I wish I was joking, but honestly, a trained parrot can speak a few words to dictate a story prompt like “Tell me a story 90,000 words long about Martha Stewart going to the moon” into an AI text-creation tool. The timing of reading this book is incredible with all of the hype going on about people using AI tools like ChatGPT to write books because Bridget Collins actually discusses what makes a “real” book, in her own way.

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