Tag: AI

Respect The Competition

I’ve talked about
how some business builders
are using AI
to ethically and legally
create many versions of the same book
and then sell those versions.

This activity,
of course,
decreases my book sales.
The market is being flooded
with books.
It is more challenging
for my books to be discovered.

I don’t LIKE the deluge
of AI books.

But I can still ADMIRE
the strategies
these book creators are using.

The competition
is valid competition
for a reason.
They’re doing something right.

Acknowledge that.
Respect them.
Learn from them.

Rewarding Behaviors

Yesterday,
I talked about how
AI business builders
are publishing
30 different versions
of the same book
under 30 different pen names.

You might be wondering
why this is now
more effective
sales-wise
than simply focusing on
1 book and 1 pen name.

It is because
Amazon’s algorithms
now focus almost entirely
on new releases
and they hide older books.

A new release
in the publishing world
is now
a release that is less than
7 days old.

This means publishing
at minimum
once a week
gains MANY more sales
than publishing
once every three months.

(Is it more profitable?
It is for the book creator
if they use
a low cost option
like AI.
Amazon, however,
incurs incremental costs
per book listing.)

Amazon’s algorithms
reward new releases.
They are getting a deluge
of new releases.

We get more
of whatever we reward.

Remember that
when you’re designing
incentives.

There IS A Solution

One of the big issues
with using AI
to produce books
is it requires existing books
to guide or train it.

Using those books
is copyright infringement.

That’s a HUGE legal
and ethical problem.

So some clever business builders
now pay for a ghostwriter
to write a novel.

Then they use THAT original story
to create
5, 10, 30 AI copies.

And they publish those stories
under 5, 10, 30 pen names.

The copyright problem
is solved.

Right now, you are likely
struggling with a problem.

Know that there likely IS
a solution
for that problem.

Continue searching for it.

A Reflection Of The Creator

I watched
The Creator recently
(and LOVED it).

One of the many things
I enjoyed about this movie
is…
it quietly showed
that creations are a reflection
of their creator.

If we have different creators
working on similar projects,
we’ll end up with
different creations or products.

This is why one hundred writers
can receive the same writing prompt
and write one hundred very different stories.

And this is also why
I don’t worry excessively
about my ideas being stolen.

Others might take my ideas
but they can’t take my unique way
of approaching those ideas.

Creations are a reflection
of their creators.

We’re unique.
Our products will be unique
also.

Human Nature Is Flawed And We Should Recognize That

I’m a hopeful person.

I think we have to be
hopeful people
to build businesses.

We hope there will be
customers
for our products/services
when we bring them to market.

But I don’t
pretend human nature
is anything other
than what it is.

I know, for example,
that while
people SHOULD boycott
books that are written
by AI,
the majority of people
WON’T.

The average person doesn’t care
who ‘writes’ the books
they buy.
And they don’t care
about the future of books.

They only care about the product.
They only care about themselves
and their enjoyment of that product.

That’s human nature.
We are selfish.

Knowing human nature,
accepting our flaws,
saves time and effort
and it focuses us on solutions
that have a better chance
of being successful.

Returning to my example,
writers shouldn’t waste time and effort
trying to convince
readers to boycott AI.

They should, instead, focus their energies
on deriving
solutions that have a better chance
of being successful.

Accept humans
for who we truly are,
flaws and everything else,
and make better decisions.

Fighting The Inevitable

Many writers,
at the moment,
are fighting the use of
AI
for writing, cover art, editing.

I often ask them
what their plan is
for when AI
is the norm.

They say
it will never be
the norm.
They plan to always
fight it.

They WILL lose
that fight.

Heck, they’re losing
that fight
now.
Major publishers
are already contracting
AI-written stories.

Fighting the inevitable
has some merit.
It can delay
that inevitable
and allow us time
to craft plans
for dealing with it.

But the inevitable
WILL happen.
Prepare for it.