I totally agree with everything you’re saying! I’m a current author and I just discovered ChatGPT. Out of curiousity I wrote out a detailed explanation of my magic system and asked ChatGPT to throw out some specific uses of the magic and it spit out so many that I never even thought of. After that, I was even more curious. I’ve been wanting to write a cosmic horror detective noir book, but my current series is eating away all my time. I decided to summarize chapter 1 of this cosmic horror book in ChatGPT and ask it to write it for me. It wasn’t great, but it gave a great skeleton for me to go through and edit and change the voice and perspective and the dialogue. definitely the dialogue. Chatgpt doesn’t do great with dialogue. It’s really really cool. Right now, I think using it this way will get a lot of haters, because, like me, if you don’t understand how Chatgpt works you will think that all you have to do is throw in a prompt and get this bestselling book. Nope. Its still a lot of work to edit it and infuse personality into it. It will catch on eventually. I paid a butt ton of money for a cover for my current book, and now that I have access to Dall-E i’m not sure I’ll contract another artist. I understand the fear of “oh no people are going to lose jobs” but at the same time, most indie authors aren’t rich. we don’t have excess money to throw at all these different services. we just don’t. so we either have to sacrifice savings or whatnot to get a good product or we have to go with an inferior product because its all we can afford. with Dall-E, that isn’t the case anymore. And like with writing a book, it’s not as simple as saying “give me this picture.” and thats it. It will take a lot of prompt engineering and time customizing, so its not like its a cheat system. Anyway, this has been long enough. I’ll stop now!
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