I am using AI for research for my new novel. That means not asking Google questions but asking ChatGPT for suggestions. Anything I want further information on, I ask Google.
Questions like, what were the sacred herbs the Anglo-Saxons used? And who is the saint of lost causes? A lot of this is like having an extended memory, as the results were often on the tip of my tongue (Yeah, sure, ed.).
I am also using AI for book title suggestions. I ask ChatGPT to act as a book marketing expert and suggest 10 titles for a book described as follows. And then I paste in a description of the book.
I truly hate making titles. And they are very important. A series I wrote during the pandemic has suffered from being poorly titled, and for print editions, the title can never be changed.
If you don’t like the first 10 titles the AI makes, you can ask it for 10 more. And then another 10 and another. Try asking a friend for that!
AI for writers is not even close to writing a whole novel, but it is a good writers’ assistant. We are obliged, I believe, to use the tools of technology, or otherwise we’d all be writing with quill pens.
What do you think?
Our BGS AI ChatBot
If you want to test an AI chatbot, free, please go to our blog here and click the chat icon on the lower right and ask it a question. It’s powered by OpenAI.
To subscribe to this newsletter, for those who may have received this email as a trial, click below for monthly and annual options:
Subscribe now
To subscribe with PayPal for only $6 per month click below:
Yes, I check things too. But that's an easier path than getting a list of web sites you have to click into and read through. Direct answers - AI - is the future and the replies are getting better.
I would just be careful with any 'factual' information. I'm sure you know that ChatGPT makes up facts from time to time. I have read this and heard it directly. My son asked it about a Renaissance writer, giving name and dates, and got a whole list of references and details, but the writer was a product of my son's imagination. I have no idea how frequently this happens. It sounds like a bright self-confident university student caught on the hop.