Okay, so you can write books with AI. But why bother? ‹ Literary Hub

As was perhaps inevitable, ChatGPT--the free chatbot created by OpenAI that has been ruffling feathers ever since it was launched in November--has now spawned "a boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon," according to Greg Bensinger at Reuters. Bensinger counted over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle store that listed ChatGPT as author or co-author, which isn't counting the books that were created using the software without acknowledgement (an unknowable, perhaps infinite number). Would-be author Brett Schickler told Reuters that after he learned about ChatGPT--which can instantly generate cogent blocks of text from any prompt--he "figured an opportunity had landed in his lap." "The idea of writing a book finally seemed possible," he explained. "I thought'I can do this.'"