Both on Amazon and in Clarkesworld
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:19 am
ChatGPT is an extraordinarily versatile artificial intelligence, and beyond being able to respond with incredible precision to the questions its users ask it, it is also perfectly suited to literature. In fact, since it officially emerged from its shell in November, it has already written more than 200 Kindle books on Amazon's bookstore.
However, even though ChatGPT is a very prolific author, his role is more that of a "ghostwriter" . In other words, he writes cheap books with real writers who prefer to keep quiet about ChatGPT's involvement in their works.
True to its multifaceted nature, ChatGPT sinks its teeth into all kinds of literary genres , from poetry to children's literature, including learning guides.
With the invaluable help of OpenAI's chatbot, all kinds of books can be written in just a few hours , and since ChatGPT's co-authorship tends to be hidden, the phenomenon of "robotic literature" inevitably raises an ethical debate.
Today, the Amazon bookstore , where thousands of books are self-published each year, closes the door to works that have been plagiarized , but at no time does it consider the use of artificial intelligence tools to write books.
The rise of artificial intelligence as a literary tool raises many questions, as this technology evolves so quickly that its regulation will inevitably follow suit.
There are more and more books co-written by ChatGPT (but few authors mention the help of OpenAI AI)
Not only Amazon has been confronted in recent months with hundreds of works generated (at least partially) with the help of ChatGPT, but also the science fiction publication Magazine Clarkesworld has been directly affected by this phenomenon . The magazine has been forced to temporarily suspend the publication of short stories after receiving a veritable flood of stories suspected of having been created by artificial intelligence (but without any clear indication in this regard).
Magazine, many authors avoid mentioning the participation of ChatGPT in their works , making it impossible to examine the real impact of this technology (condemned to the role of "ghostwriter") on literature.
However, some authors are not shy about admitting that without ChatGPT at their side they probably would not have ventured into literature. This is, for example, the case of Brett Schickler who recently published the children's book The Wise Little Squirrel on Amazon . Featuring a squirrel as the main character, Schickler's work was written with the help of ChatGPT, but its participation is omitted in the description of the book.
Beyond writing book fragments based on the instructions given by the author, ChatGPT prides oman number screening itself on being able to replicate writing styles (which may be completely different from the style of the person who signs the work as a writer).
Although the literary quality of the texts produced by ChatGPT is questionable, many are already exploiting this vein for their own benefit . On his YouTube channel, Frank White boasts, for example, of having written in just a few hours the science fiction novel Galactic Pimp: Vol. 1 , which can be purchased on Amazon for one dollar. Again, the description of this work does not specify the co-authorship of ChatGPT.
While ChatGPT is a tool that is very prone to cheating , OpenAI is developing software to recognize whether a text has been written by its chatbot or not (or if its author is, on the contrary, 100% human). However, OpenAI's tool is far from accurate.
Some universities and other educational institutions have also decided to ban ChatGPT from their domains to prevent students from cheating and relying on it to complete exams and assignments.
However, even though ChatGPT is a very prolific author, his role is more that of a "ghostwriter" . In other words, he writes cheap books with real writers who prefer to keep quiet about ChatGPT's involvement in their works.
True to its multifaceted nature, ChatGPT sinks its teeth into all kinds of literary genres , from poetry to children's literature, including learning guides.
With the invaluable help of OpenAI's chatbot, all kinds of books can be written in just a few hours , and since ChatGPT's co-authorship tends to be hidden, the phenomenon of "robotic literature" inevitably raises an ethical debate.
Today, the Amazon bookstore , where thousands of books are self-published each year, closes the door to works that have been plagiarized , but at no time does it consider the use of artificial intelligence tools to write books.
The rise of artificial intelligence as a literary tool raises many questions, as this technology evolves so quickly that its regulation will inevitably follow suit.
There are more and more books co-written by ChatGPT (but few authors mention the help of OpenAI AI)
Not only Amazon has been confronted in recent months with hundreds of works generated (at least partially) with the help of ChatGPT, but also the science fiction publication Magazine Clarkesworld has been directly affected by this phenomenon . The magazine has been forced to temporarily suspend the publication of short stories after receiving a veritable flood of stories suspected of having been created by artificial intelligence (but without any clear indication in this regard).
Magazine, many authors avoid mentioning the participation of ChatGPT in their works , making it impossible to examine the real impact of this technology (condemned to the role of "ghostwriter") on literature.
However, some authors are not shy about admitting that without ChatGPT at their side they probably would not have ventured into literature. This is, for example, the case of Brett Schickler who recently published the children's book The Wise Little Squirrel on Amazon . Featuring a squirrel as the main character, Schickler's work was written with the help of ChatGPT, but its participation is omitted in the description of the book.
Beyond writing book fragments based on the instructions given by the author, ChatGPT prides oman number screening itself on being able to replicate writing styles (which may be completely different from the style of the person who signs the work as a writer).
Although the literary quality of the texts produced by ChatGPT is questionable, many are already exploiting this vein for their own benefit . On his YouTube channel, Frank White boasts, for example, of having written in just a few hours the science fiction novel Galactic Pimp: Vol. 1 , which can be purchased on Amazon for one dollar. Again, the description of this work does not specify the co-authorship of ChatGPT.
While ChatGPT is a tool that is very prone to cheating , OpenAI is developing software to recognize whether a text has been written by its chatbot or not (or if its author is, on the contrary, 100% human). However, OpenAI's tool is far from accurate.
Some universities and other educational institutions have also decided to ban ChatGPT from their domains to prevent students from cheating and relying on it to complete exams and assignments.