Let’s make a distinction before you start shaking your head.
A.I. is NOT for writing. No. You’re the creative and if you need A.I. to write your stories for you, why do you even bother? You’re missing out on the fun of creation–drop it right now and rely on your imagination.
No, the A.I. I’m talking about is for research.
What exactly is A.I. then? No, it’s not a terminator and it’s not trying to take over the world no matter what the news media tries to scare you with.
A.I. is a TOOL and nothing more. Actually it’s a “google” search on steroids. It’s the Superman of search tools. A.I. can sift through information on the internet in two eye blinks and you can take advantage of that to help with a lot of aspects of writing like research.
How many times do we writers look up crazy things like animal behavior, locations, recoil of guns, poisons, and a million other things? You can use the traditional search engines and do just fine, but for more complex research, A.I. is a great tool.
Let’s say it again…A.I. is a tool. Say it with me: A.I. is a tool you can learn to use like Google search, or your own internet detective to run things down for you while you concentrate on the good stuff…like writing 😉
I’ve been using it for marketing. I’ve hit that level where lots of people come at me to “help” me with marketing. How do I tell which are legit and which are scammers? Yes, I can get on the net and search names, drilling down to who they are or might be, looking into their backgrounds to see if they’re legitimate or not.
There’s a handy tool called ChatGPT:
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt
You don’t have to pay for it right now and you don’t even have to create an account. Just go there and you can ask questions. I get a limited number per day, but I can only dig into things for so long anyway so check it out and try it.
When you get an email and Jay Swindle starts telling you he can get your books in front of thousands of people for a low, low price, ask ChatGPT about him. Again, it’s not 100% accurate, but it can at least tell you what it’s been able to find out about Jay and whether he’s a risky bet or not.
I use it to check out anyone and everyone who approaches me about working with them.
But that’s not all 😉 I’ve been using ChatGPT to get ideas on where to market my books. Primarily, right now, I’m a horror author so I’ve been tapping into A.I. to get ideas where to market my books–find my horror crowd on podcasts, horror magazines and other places where actual readers go. You can do it too, no matter what genre you write in.
Most times this ChatGPT tool will offer to assist you in further searches or even drill down further to fine tune your searches. Usually it gives me more information than I need and I’ll cut and paste its recommendations into documents I can sift through later.
Alright, I’ve said enough. Make your own decisions. I use this powerful new tool to help me figure out how to get my books in front of the masses.
Even if it’s not your thing, that’s okay too.
Just don’t use A.I. to do the writing for you–you’re cheating yourself out of that creative “wow.”
Craig