The writing is meh. It's usually very repetitive, as well. It's usually got some typos but nothing too glaring. Not like the stuff I've been getting lately. That dog one was hard to do with all the typos, mis-used words, and just general strange phrasing. Indians tricking me into narrating stuff by giving me an audition that has been edited well, just to dump a nonsensical manuscript on me. I could probably fight with ACX and get out of the contract, but I don't know if I get a mark on my record for it.
Now, it's all AI generated crap. Repetitive, tons of alliteration, metaphors, and the like. It's brutal. I wouldn't mind the use of AI, but they aren't even bothering to edit. Just take the spew and carry on.
I keep thinking about using AI to write something, but I just haven't had the time. Too many authors tricking me with decent auditions that turn into crap manuscripts.
I meant to send you a message when you sent me the newest Audible codes (thanks!), but I am pretty sure I got 3/4 of the way through writing it, never sent it, accidentally closed the tab, and forgot about it.
Regardless, I meant to ask you about the AI writing trend. No fewer than three Poal/Upgoat/Goatmatrix users contacted me with books they wrote, asking me for my opinions and potential editing services. And I like people getting creative, so I always attempt to read the first chapter at least, so I can provide feedback.
I always read what they send, and give them the benefit of the doubt, assuming they wrote it, but every single one who 'wrote a book' was just using AI...
The problem is none of the books read with honesty. One of them was about a construction worker, and I knew the guy who 'wrote' it, was also a construction worker.
But it didn't read like it was written by a construction worker; It read like it was written by a bunch of AI's who had scraped writing datasets, mostly written by writers, not construction workers, about construction work.
I keep thinking about using AI to write something, but I just haven't had the time
What would you want the AI to write?
It's really easy to tell AI written stuff. My idiotic bosshole even uses it to write chat messages to us. He's indian and speaks broken English...
I'd have it write stuff I'd like to read. Probably paranormal erotica. It's non-fiction is beyond terrible. There are a couple of neat sites that I've played with that make it easy to blend AI to get ideas and then you write the story. Sudowrite sudowrite.com and Novelcrafter novelcrafter.com look the most promising.
Some authors using sudowrite swear they have books that sell well. They must not sound too horrible.
I don't get to talk to the authors much at all, but one I chatted with about a new program ACX was offering us, said her sales are down dramatically and I told her mine are the same. I think it's from all the AI slop. I know I return from Kindle Unlimited more than I read anymore because it's AI slop. It's hard to find legit stuff to read - and reviews seem to be paid or from that weird BookSprout service. I tried a paid review site for some audiobooks where they give the audiobook to someone and just request a review which is a legit way to do it that won't get my account deleted from Amazon, but half the people claim the code and don't write a review.
My prolific daddy porn author got his account deleted by Amazon saying he broke their terms and services, but couldn't get details out of them. So a huge portion of my back catalog was just zapped. He called a lawyer but the lawyer said even if he could get any details out of Amazon it wouldn't be worth the cash and there was no point in trying to fight it. I wish Amazon would delete the indian generated AI slop rather than an author who was clearly just writing these stories for fun or even give him a chance to fix whatever was wrong. As far as I could tell none of the writing was plagiarized and every story made a point to say everyone was older than 18. I wonder if it was the way he was bundling them, but who knows.
How many words were the most successful books you narrated?
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