I won't name him here, but I recently got a #YouTube suggestion for someone who makes videos about "How to Make Money #Writing Books with #ChatGPT." The #YouTuber has a few actual books out, all of which are about marketing and not about "how to write #fiction."

Someone who tells you how to get rich, but who only got rich by telling people how to get rich is called a "Con Artist."

Someone who's never written a fiction novel, but tells you how to get rich by writing a fiction novel is also called a "Con Artist."

"AI can write books for you!" is one of the latest in a long line of #EasyMoney #GetRichQuickSchemes.

Also, #AI cannot hold a #copyright– nor can you to that #AIgenerated text, unless a #substantive portion of it is human-authored.

In other words, you still have to do the work.

#AI #AIAuthorship #AIAuthored #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #WritingCommunity #Scams #Scammers #WritersLife #ConArtist #HumanAuthorship #ConArtistry #ConArtists #Publishing #PublishingMyths

"The fraudulent titles appear to be entirely removed from Amazon and Goodreads alike. I’m sure that’s in no small part due to my visibility and reputation in the writing and publishing community. What will authors with smaller profiles do when this happens to them? If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, I’d start by reaching out to an advocacy organization like The Authors Guild."

--Jane Friedman

#AI
#AIAuthored
#AIArt
#infringement
#trademark
#copyright

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