I saw an interesting item on the news this week about an influencer that was completely AI. Yikes.
A few days ago, I was half-way through a video about a singer I used to like, and I accepted they were using AI photos of the people they were talking about. But a few minutes in, began to have doubts about this whole thing, and wondered what else has been written about this particular scenario. There were a lot of videos about it, but they were all about this video, just rehashing it. So I investigated further to find out more about this event, and guess what. It never even happened. Even more, when I went back to the original video it didn't even mention AI had been used. Usually there will be some sneaky, right at the bottom, "AI has been used for entertainment and education blah blah blah" kind of thing.
What can you trust?
There is a movement amongst authors to proclaim that we are not AI and the book has been penned by an actual human.
When you sit back and look at it, its just hilarious but this is the world and it is most certainly a fascinating one, and, boy, I hope I'm around in another twenty years to see just what's gone on between now and then.
I can tell you right now that writing my books is just me and my laptop.
I use Microsoft Word, and I've used their spell check and grammar check for years. I do not agree with every suggestion it makes, either, let it be known! I also like the WordHippo website for an online thesaurus, and I have a decent library of how to books and writing books in print and also on my Kindle. I even have a couple of old school Thesauri (Roget's, too) but its just easier to go to WordHippo. However, if the internet goes down, I'm covered.
I use the Atticus programme for formatting my books, which are uploaded to Amazon and also to Draft To Digital to distribute to Apple, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, etc.
I used AI for one set of covers recently, to try it out and see what it looked like, but that was the image alone. I do all the other work myself on the GIMP programme, in terms of uploading an image I've bought and then selecting text etc. It takes time but its also quite fun to do.
I'm sure I'll use AI for more things as time goes by. Some of it is just incredible, it blows my mind. But rest assured, as far as the actual writing of the books goes, its just this brain and these hands on the keyboard, with input from my very human proofreader person, and suggestions from the spellcheck, which I may or may not take on board.
Speaking of artificial - there is nothing artificial about the photo above, and the gorgeous beds of poppies I saw, at Albert Park near Auckland University last week!!
~ Joanne/Maddie
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