How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT

I wrote about the use of artificial intelligence in genre fiction. An extremely rapid pace of publishing, as fast as a book a month, is the norm for most authors who write for Amazon. Artificial intelligence helped them write quickly but it also raised ethical questions. Is the widespread use of artificial intelligence going to warp fiction? There are parts of the writing process that can be automated. Is it a good idea for authors to reveal their use of artificial intelligence?

Many of the questions that these writers were dealing with have become more urgent and mainstream with the debut of the new show. I checked back with one of the authors, who writes in the cozy paranormal mystery subgenre under the pen name "LeanneLeeds", to see how she was thinking about Artificial Intelligence. She uses the GPT 3-based tool Sudowrite and has begun incorporating some of the newer tools into her fiction. We talked about what it was like to work with the company and how it has affected the author community.

When we talked last time, you had gone through an evolution of using Sudowrite, first mostly as a sort ofsaurus, then experimenting with incorporating its text into your work, then letting it lead you and having an alienating experience with that, and reining it back and using it primarily Is your process the same now?

It was supposed to help me write two books at the same time, but it didn't work out that way. I still have a connection to my own writing. On the other hand, it was a positive thing.

Is it possible to write two books at the same time?

If I don't know what to write, I'll just pop something in there and it will get me going, and I'll be back in the book I left. That wasn't the way it worked out. I didn't care what it said about me if I didn't know what I was doing. It wasn't going to help me get back into the swing of things.

Early on, you and a few other independent authors were using these tools. It feels like a lot of other people are facing the same questions you are. What has been going on?

I think I'm grappling a little bit more public. People used to roll their eyes at the idea of using artificial intelligence for something. That was exploded by Chat GP3 There is a discussion going on in every author group I am in.

Everyone is talking about how to use it on the peripherals. It does blurbs well, and I don't like doing blurbs, and I have to pay someone to do them, so I'm going to use it for blurbs. I'm going to use it to tighten up my plot because I don't like to plot. It will make sure that it's correct if you tell it to be proofread.

There is a discussion going on in every private author group I am in.

Everybody gets closer and closer to using it, and then they stop, and everyone seems to feel like they have to announce when they are talking about this: "But I do not ever use it its words to write my books."

Yes, I do. I don't think it drives my plot. None of the ideas in my books are driven by it. It doesn't make people. To get them down quicker and get it out. In the last couple of weeks, I have wondered if I engage in this debate. Is anything said? I haven't said anything for the majority of the time.

Do you think people are drawing?

It's a concern of mine. Everyone knows that they crawled with permission.

There is an ethics question. Right now, I'm listening to Jim Butcher's audiobook. He has a great tone. The snark is hilarious. When I was thinking about trying to get something like that with a character, I said, "Re write it in the style of Jim Butcher" It's a good sign! It's the same kind of phrase.

Where did it find that? The same fear is going on with visual artists. In the artist community, it's obvious. I have three authors that I have read many times, and I know they never gave permission for their stuff to be looked at, and I was able to recreate their style.

There is a line between using artificial intelligence for a description and mimicking another author's voice.

It's true. I won't do that. I think that is an ethical line. I would like to write like Jim Butcher, but I am not going to rewrite my stories to make him like them.

If you were ok with that, you could use this technology.

Do you have a piece of work that uses chatGPT?

I use it for mysteries. blurbs

I told it who I am and what I needed first. The small town of Table Rock, Texas is the location of my next novel. A woman is an amateur sleuth. She is named this. I need a person who will help me with my case. I want to know how they died. I want to know why four murder suspects are suspected and how they're cleared. Tell me who the murderer is.

It will be able to do that. That will be spit out by it.

It seems like it understands what I want.

Some of the things it has given you.

All of the murder mysteries in the books two, three, four, five, six, and seven were created by the same person. It seems like it understands what I am asking for if I tell it that it is a cozy mystery and that it needs to be funny. It gives me names for the suspects that are cute. There are not many reasons behind it.

Are you able to automate that part of the story and still have control over it?

There are two mysteries. The murder is one of the things that all of the characters are talking about. The murder is less important than all the other things. There needs to be a murder and it needs to be amusing and funny. It is almost inconsequential to the plot because it is the thing that drives everything.

There are a few questions that have been answered.

Over email, you mentioned that you were using artificial intelligence.

I had sketched out a plot on the seventh book that I had, but I didn't do the entire cover on DALL-E. There is a cat that is cute. It was like a crossbreed between a hairless cat and a haired cat. It looks like a werewolf because of the hair on it.

I would have had to find a photographer that could do a shoot, find a cat and pay everyone to get the image and the cover that I wanted. It's expensive. I was on alark. I don't know.

I jumped into DALL-E when I opened my account. That's a big boom! It saved a lot of time and money, and the cover looks good, but a photographer didn't get paid. The person who wanted to pose for the camera didn't get paid.

What do you think about how writers use these tools?

I don't know which way it's going to go. I don't want people who aren't comfortable using it to be encouraged. It will leak into their lives. I think it will be very difficult to get away from it, because it is already leaking into our other software. I don't know where it's headed. It was shocking to the hell out of me by the way. It will take three or four years for it to get better. That is so much better than before. Six months have passed. The progress is so fast that few questions have been asked.

The interview has been trimmed down.