AI authors are sweeping into online booksellers.
“We still need humans for that.”
AI software makes writing and publishing a book on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing store easy.
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Reuters reports that dozens of tutorials are available online on how to use AI to get published.
Watching videos, he said, is becoming a more common pastime than reading books.
“The art of writing is becoming obsolete, and video is accelerating that,” he added.
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For some uses, AI software can be helpful, Behrens noted.
Rogers said that AI software like ChatGPT could be an asset for its speed and grammatical crispness.
Cheat or Tool?
The biggest challenge is that ChatGPT writing, simply put, lacks flavor and spark.
But Behrens said that AI-based tools would support human authors more and more.
Think of AI as a kind of autocorrect feature.
We can imagine this slowly extending to larger pieces of text," he added.
