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It seems so easy, doesn’t it?

·       Ask Grok to take your “idea” and create a 300-page manuscript about it – so you don’t have to spend days, weeks, or months writing a real book.

·       Ask ChatGPT to create a book cover for you so you don’t have to pay a designer. Then, ask it to create interior illustrations for the book so you don’t have to hire an illustrator.

·       Have Gemini create a list of questions to ask the publisher you are considering using, and Gemini comes up with 300 of them! Great! Send them all! (We have a funny story about this in this episode!)

·       Get Co-Pilot to write up a query letter and email it to 500 publications all at once.

Artificial Intelligence seems to be the magical solution to avoid actually doing any work, or using your own creativity.

The problem is that the world still recognizes the value of those things, and a great many human beings do not appreciate people who take short cuts and try to pass the results off as their own creative work.

In this episode, Angela and Brian discuss the very real consequences that many so-called “authors” and “writers” are experiencing right now because they used AI to do the work for them. It isn’t just “the industry” that will punish you when you use AI. It will also be your potential audience, other authors and writers, and editors and publishers who don’t have the time or patience to slog through your cookie-cutter proposals or your “AI slop” manuscript. Some authors and freelance writers have been blacklisted and banned for doing this!

There are potential legal consequences as well!

So:

·       Before you pull up that AI client to do your work for you…

·       Before you get on social media and brag to the masses about a new book you didn’t even write…

·       Before you post an AI-generated book cover online, or put a book on the market with AI-generated illustrations inside…

·       Before you use AI to send emails to editors who are looking for freelance writers…

·       Before you use AI to generate your back cover text or marketing materials…

·       And before you send anything at all created using AI to an editor or a book publisher…

Take the time to listen to this episode and learn why you need to do your own creating. Don’t become another numbskull “author” whose entire reputation gets destroyed after using Artificial Intelligence.

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• How Will You Prove You Didn’t Use AI To Write Your Novel?

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