How Kindle novelists use OpenAI’s chatGPT

I wrote about this earlier in the year. Genre authors use artificial intelligenceThey were very clear in their narratives. Most of them wrote for Amazon’s Kindle platform. The publication speed is lightning fast, with one book per month being the norm. The AI ​​helped them type quickly, but it also raised complex aesthetic and ethical questions. Will artificial intelligence be used to rewrite the language of everyday metaphors and idioms? Can writing be automated to the point that it no longer feels like part of it? Should authors disclose their use AI?

With advent chatMany of the questions these writers were trying to answer have become more pressing and general. Jennifer Lieb, a cozy supernatural mystery author, contacted me again. Leanne LeedsLet’s take a look at her thoughts about AI. She still uses the GPT-3-based tool Sudowrite—in fact, she’s now being paid to write tips about using it in the company’s blog—and has begun to incorporate some modern tools into her imagination. We talked about how ChatGPT was introduced to the indie author community and other topics.

You had been using Sudowrite as a type of thesaurus. Then you tried incorporating it into your work and then let it take you. After that, you stopped using it and used it to illustrate the descriptions. What is your current operation?

It failed spectacularly. I was hoping it would allow me to write two books simultaneously. Evidently, I’m still in touch my own writing. So, on one hand, that was fine.

You think it could allow for you to write two books simultaneously?

I was expecting that. If I don’t know how to write, I’ll just put something in there. Then, I’ll go back to the book that I left a week before.It didn’t turn out that way. It didn’t matter what I spit on my face, if I didn’t know what I was doing. It won’t help to me reconnect with what I’ve written.

These tools were adopted early by you and other freelance writers. ChatGPT makes it seem like many people are asking the same questions that you are. What was that?

I still wrestle and I think I have more fun doing it. People used to look at AI with a lot of suspicion. ChatGP3 was the catalyst. There’s always some sort of discussion in every group, every private author group behind-the-scenes that I’m a part of.

Everyone is talking about it being used on peripherals right now. But there seems to be a moral divide between: “It works very well, and I hate doing blurb, and I have to pay someone to do blurb, and blurb doesn’t write, so I’m going to use it for publicity.” Because I hate plotting, but it plots really well, so I’ll use it for that.” Or “Did she know that if you tell her it to proofread, it will ensure it’s grammatically correct?”

Everybody gets closer and closer to using the device to write their own stuff, but then they stop and everyone feels they have to say this: “But, I never use it for writing my books.”

Me too. He does not drive my plots. It does not usually drive any of my ideas. It does not create characters. But the actual words, just so I can get it out quicker, I do. For the past few weeks, I have been wondering if I am participating in this discussion. Should I say anything? I didn’t say anything for the most part.

What do people draw?

It is a concern about plagiarism. Everybody knows that they crawl on things without permission.

And there is an ethical issue. I can go in, and right now I’m listening Jim Butcher’s audiobooks. His voice is just perfect. I love dead fork. So I went to AI to try to have something similar with a character, and I said, “Rewrite that Jim Butcher style.” BAM!Similar rigid phrasing and urban fantasies.

Where did you get that information? It’s almost the exact same argument as the fear. visual artists. It is most evident in the artist community. I have three authors I have read, independent authors, with whom I am friends. I know that they have never allowed me to view their work, but I have been able recreate their style.

Do you see the line between AI being used to describe and AI being used to imitate the voice or words of another author?

Yeah. I won’t do that. This to me is an ethical line. I may like Jim Butcher and I might want my stories to be written like him, but I won’t take my stories and rewrite them to make him look bad.

You can, if morally acceptable with it, use this technology and the things it allows you to do.

Have you integrated ChatGPT into the work of your organization?

It is currently used for titles and plots, specifically mystery plots. semantics.

I began by telling her who I was and what she needed. “I’m writing a paranormal mystery set in Table Rock, Texas. She is an amateur detective. That’s her name. I need a victim of murder. I need to know how they were killed. I need information about four murder suspects, including details about why and how they were exonerated. Please tell me who He’s guilty of murdering.

And you will. It will be spit out.

What are some of these things that I gave?

Now I have [plots for]ChatGPT created Books Two, Three and Four, Five, Six and Seven, as well as all of these murder mysteries. I edited some. It’s amazing that if I tell ChatGPT it’s a comforting puzzle, and tell him he needs humor, he seems understand what I’m asking. I was impressed by the names he gave me for the suspects. It’s not bloody or grave.

Are you able to automate this part and still be in control of the story?

There are two parts to this cozy puzzle. There’s the killing. This is the core of the story. But to me, killing tends to be less important than all revolving. There must be at least one murder. It must be entertaining, funny, and provide reasons for chaos and oddity. The thing that drives the plot is what is almost irrelevant to the plot.

You sent an email indicating that you were using AI to cover books.

I didn’t cover the entire thing. DALL-EBut in the seventh book I have, I had drawn an illustration of a Lykoi kitten. Although she is a very ugly cat and cute, it is adorable. It is a relatively new breed, which looks like a cross between an a hairy cat or a cat without hair. It has hair in certain places and looks almost like a werewolf.

I needed a photographer who could take photos, find a Lykoi kitten, and pay everyone for the cover and photo I needed. that’s expensive. So I was just joking. huh? I wonder…

And I went to open my bank account, and jumped into DALLE. bubble!It saved me a lot of time, money, and the cover looks great. But the photographer wasn’t paid. The person who wanted his cat to be represented was not paid.

How do these tools have changed over time?

I am stuck in the middle of it all, wondering where it is going. I don’t want people to feel uncomfortable using it. I believe it will seep into people’s lives. It’s already affecting all of our shows, so it’s going be very difficult to escape it. But I don’t know where this all leads. ChatGPT was a shock to me. It will take three to four years, but it will get better. ChatGPT arrived, and, oh my goodness! This is so much more! Six months have passed! The pace of progress is impressive and only a few questions have been answered.

The interview was edited and abbreviated.