OpenAI touts GPT3 models as being capable of natural language processing tasks such as text generation, summarisation, and analysis, which sounds pretty powerful, even though queries and replies are limited to short paragraphs each time.įor a beleaguered writer, however, ChatGPT's outputs look good enough for developing synopses, storylines, back cover copy, and blurbs. ChatGPT does not scour the internet for information its 'memory' comprises a humongous data pool from which it draws upon to reply to users. The AI model behind ChatGPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT3), was released in 2020 and chiefly uses English as a medium. With such a disposable tool at one's fingertips, ignoring it – and the itch to finally get published – would make little sense.

So, should YOU take that step? It's been said that we all have a book in us but we somehow never get around to writing it. Apparently, Amazon does not require authors to disclose whether their books were penned with AI help – not yet, at any rate, so the actual number of such books on Kindle may be higher. Interestingly, the only clues hinting that Schickler's book is in this category are some of the reviews on its Amazon page.

He also employed AI to design the cover.Īs of mid-February, over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle store are listed as authored or co-authored by ChatGPT, according to Reuters. Schickler 'wrote' The Wise Little Squirrel by prompting ChatGPT with queries like 'write a story about a dad teaching his son about financial literacy'.

Sounds normal, except that the author, Brett Schickler, had help writing it: the software sensation ChatGPT, an AI interface developed by artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI that produces replies based on user queries. Sammy's friends Benny the Bear and Lily the Chipmunk then help the squirrel learn about the importance and benefits of saving and investing. In a book titled The Wise Little Squirrel: A Tale of Saving and Investing, a squirrel named Sammy finds a gold coin while picking up acorns.

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