AI Novels: How Good is Good Enough?
Fast, Cheap, Good. You can only have two.
I recommend all authors write a complete book with AI. Not to publish it, mind you. Just as an exercise. Once you go through the process, generating and regenerating text again and again, you will be able to absorb the patterns that AI spits out. No matter how good the model is, they all have a similar way of writing. It repeats itself. It tactically ignores instructions you’ve given it. It uses the same turn of phrase.
It loves to “delve deep.” It loves to have the “sun dip low over the horizon, casting shadows across the floor/tree line/ocean.”
And once you see it, you can’t ever unsee it.
That’s not to say you shouldn’t use AI in your writing. But being well-acquainted with it means you use it in the best possible way for you.
It also means you make good purchasing decisions when deciding to hire someone to write content for you.
What Your Money Gets You
We’ve all gotten bad service or substandard bang for our buck. It doesn’t feel good.
But sometimes, the customer isn’t right and what…