Cause We're Living in an AI World

The More I Play with AI…

The weirder it gets. I admit it, it’s fun to put in outlandish prompts and see what it generates.

AI Generated — can you figure out what prompt I used?

In other news, Kindle KDP is now requiring disclosure of “AI Generated” content. They differentiate between Generated and Assisted. (Assisted is using something like ProWritingAid to catch all those punctuation boo-boos.) They broke it down too. They want to know about the text and the images. Whether it was modified — just a minor tweak or a significant alteration.

They say right now it’s just for internal use, but they might show that later. Is that fair? Pitting my book that’s taken me years to write and $$ to edit and design against something that’s pushed out and published in a day is harsh. But how many people will do that? How many of their books will be returned? How many of them will eventually be booted for poor content? I dunno. Right now, probably lots but as AI gets better … that’s the rub.

Side Note: AI doesn’t understand plagiarism or copyright when creating something, so it doesn’t what what it can and can’t use.

….Having a computer write your story seems like a cold and distant world to me.

An interesting point I read was, “What if they use AI to catch AI that wasn’t reported?” (Very meta.) Currently, AI has reported people who wrote their own stuff as AI generated and AI generated as original. OOF!

Then I think about ghostwriting. People aren’t required to disclose when they use ghostwriters? Sure, one is at least a human writing, so there is more intention, but it is still not written by the person listed as the author.

I think we just have to let this play out. Because this rabbit hole is deep. It’s a new world for tech and creation.

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The AI Prompt

I used the prompt: The Emerald City in the Land of Oz, steampunk style, using the Synthwave effect.