"Writing Books with AI: How Do Manually Written Books Stay Relevant?"

AI-generated content is rising, if you have been on any social media platform, you have noticed that everywhere, but it’s not only social media, it’s articles, videos, and even books.

# AI-Generated Books Rise

The rise of AI-generated e-book releases- I’m sure the grey number is much higher.

Original Source, shared on Reddit

The more interesting question also: how is it in printed books?

# It’s All about Trust?

A lot also has to do with trusting the author. If you started writing before AI, people trust you more because it’s manually written. But also, there must be a way to still write today without getting lost in the AI flood.

I also find it concerning that AWS is restricted to 3 books per day (that was in 2023!), shouldn’t that be much lower?

Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns | Books | The Guardian, this was 2023-09-20

Who writes more than one book a year? This is insane.

# Amazon Has no way or Intention to Decline AI-written Books

It seems that Amazon has no way of sorting out AI books - on the Amazon Hot New Releases in Data Warehouse today, I see three books already clearly generated by AI.

Just a couple of hours later, 4 out of top 5 is AI genearted covers, so it gets updated quick.

Some of these authors write a lot - see this author: img_Writing books with AI- Study_1792495677736.webp

So if the cover is already AI-generated, you can clearly know what’s inside the book.

Amazon, please, can you not promote them as hot new releases? No offense to the authors, but when you spend years writing it, why wouldn’t you want a nice cover (or maybe you haven’t spent the years…). Just an observation today.

To my defense

I had an AI generate a cover initially too, but that was for an unfinished book and just when I started and when I focused on the writing, which is a good thing, but if you publish your life’s work on Amazon, then clearly you want something nice, might be initially helped with AI-Design skills. Still, you want to alter it to make it yours, right?

# Writing Manually

Good thing there’s still people writing manually, see Tim Ferriss:

Check other opinions

Go to ‘Will AI Replace Writers?’.

Me included, but the question is: how long will people withstand the temptation of doing the hard work of spending all the time? And again, how do we avoid the real books getting under with the flood?

# So how to Stay Relevant?

Though I certainly don’t have the answer, and I can only guess, I still think being true to yourself, writing from the heart, something you experienced, having a soul and character in your writing, and having conviction as Harry Dry said so nicely, is some thing that help. Otherwise I think we just have to wait until people are tired of reading generate text, even if good (though for writing, I haven’t come across yet), but what’s the point?

Time will tell, as always. Do you have a better answer? Write me, discuss in the link below. I’d like to know.

# Further Reads

• Keep AI Out of Your Obsidian Vault
• Why and How I am Writing a Book about Data Engineering
• What I Learned Writing with AI

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Origin: Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns | Books | The Guardian
References: AI Writing, Book Publisher