Amazon Writers Caught Using AI

[big_cane_sugar]

I guess this might be the future of second-rate fiction but unless AI makes huge improvements first-rate fiction is going to continue to require genuine human thought and creativity.

 

[StillStunned]

Wait a second. Is she saying her beta reader used AI, or that AI is her beta reader?

It's been a while, but if I remember rightly she was claiming that her beta reader had added stuff that was written by AI, and that she hadn't had time to check the beta reader's input before sending the manuscript to the publisher.

Make of that what you will.

 

[ChloeTzang]

That is very suspicious. As a fast writer I can pull off 60K in 30 days, and I have my spreadsheet from the latest NaNo to back that up. Even then, after making a NaNo draft, I don't even want to write a story longer than 2.5K for at least another 30 days. I'm not sure how someone would draft 2 full blown novels on a monthly basis either, let alone having them 100% done and published. I don't even think the pulp writers from the 30s did that, and they were fast writers on their own. They didn't even have computers in the first place.

I can consistently do 5k words a day no issue, and I've done 15k but that was a 16 hourr day, writing non-stop, no time out for plotting or anything else, so if you do a novel every 2 weeks, go at 10k a day. I've writtem a 105k word novel in 3 weeks no problem. It's remotely possible.Very very remotely, because you try doing that for 2 years continuously. Ain't no way he did 171 novels in 2 years. She's faking it with AI for sure.

 

[Nightaelf]

I can consistently do 5k words a day no issue, and I've done 15k but that was a 16 hourr day, writing non-stop, no time out for plotting or anything else, so if you do a novel every 2 weeks, go at 10k a day. I've writtem a 105k word novel in 3 weeks no problem. It's remotely possible.Very very remotely, because you try doing that for 2 years continuously. Ain't no way he did 171 novels in 2 years. She's faking it with AI for sure.

I’ve been working on a story for months now and I’ve just hit 70,000 words. I have to admit I also finished and wrote other stories in the meantime, but I honestly wouldn’t know how to develop characters at such a high writing speed. That’s why I usually work on several stories at once. Ideas need time to take shape, even bad ones!

I should add that I really write for relaxation and not with the intention of publishing, maybe that makes a difference, but still...