The HOT topic of AI in Books

This has been quite the debate as of late and I felt as an author with a decent following this should be addressed at least from my perspective.

As a writer who has spent hundreds, upwards of thousands, of dollars attending conferences, classes, and taking courses on how to better improve my craft, it is difficult for me to swallow the idea of someone being able to enter key aspects of a story into a chat engine and a story is returned, then subsequently published and marketed. I have been told by these “writers” that AI is here to stay and I should embrace it. As anything else, I have a choice and my choice is to not embrace it. I truly enjoy doing the research myself. I relish in the discovery of little-known histories and subjects and LOVE the process of flushing out the plot and characters on my own. Does this take time? Of course, it does, but I can truly say the work is my own. These AI writers also have a choice and while I don’t agree with the method of anyone just taking a pre-written story and publishing it, I can’t stop them. What I feel is offensive, is when chat companies such as Chatgpt take the hard-earned work of thousands of authors and scan their words and pages into their system so that someone else can use their style. This is stealing. I unquestionably stand behind these authors and their fight to retain their privately copyrighted works that are being stolen to train Chatgpt to be a better resource for people who want to write books the fastest way. Unfortunately, without starting a legal fight, I have no way to verify if my own work has been stolen.

However, I am here to assure you that I do not use AI for my work and do not plan to use AI-generated voices for my audiobooks either. This is taking away from the incredibly talented voice actors who have developed their craft and have earned a living from this.

I have not written this message to influence you one way or the other, I only wanted to present my stand on the subject. Thanks for reading!