My niece is totally p$%^d with ChatGPT.
She, who wants to be called they, has been making a living by writing Kindle books for years.
Initially in the Zombie Apocalypse genre and now in the gay porn genre.
Not anything I could do even if I was tempted.
Anyway, she decided to try ChatGPT and got it to write a three-book series, which she said was pretty rubbish.
After some significant edits, she published them under a pseudonym because she didn’t want them associated with her usual fare.
She’s annoyed because she has made over $5k in the last month from those three books, and they’re selling better than her usual books.
Perhaps we’ve all been looking at this the wrong way.
Perhaps we should be using the AI tools to write whatever they want and just publish them.
Remember, it’s not about how good you think the books are.
It’s how good the customer thinks they are.
It’s the same with all products.
Usually an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) will sell as well as the one you slaved over for months, and sometimes better.
I’ve seen #1 best-selling books that I thought were crap done by AI.
The question we have to ask ourselves is, “Are we in business to make money or to satisfy our aspirations?”.
In reality, we want to do both, but the practicality is that sometimes, we cannot scratch both itches simultaneously.
That reminds me of a story from my early days online.
There was a company in Melbourne that had spent several years developing an accounting package they were having trouble selling.
One weekend, for his daughter, the founder wrote a small program to build webpages.
It was pretty clunky and pretty limited, but it did work, and it was cheap.
It also became extremely popular. I had a copy, and it gave my daughter and me our start in HTML editing.
Those of us who think we’re good writers might be able to use ChatGPT or other AI tools to complete the bulk of our writing, as completing a first draft is a great start.
The secret is in crafting a good prompt.
There are hundreds of videos and documents that purport to teach you how to do good prompt engineering.
From the ones I have watched and read, they’re either too technical or too vapid to teach much at all except how to waste several hours.
The best guide I have found that explains how and why to write prompts is in this series of short video guides.
https://go.wm-tips.com/diamond.
Regards,
Brent.
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