Lean Publishing Tip of the Day 💡 Writing Books and Being an Author in the Age of AI

AI-type tools have been available to writers for decades, but recent advancements in their power, cost, and availability have changed things in a truly revolutionary way

Just by prompting an AI - essentially asking it to do things for you - people can produce entire book-length manuscripts pretty quickly, and basically without writing anything themselves.

As a book writing and publishing platform, perhaps with the most technologically sophisticated independent team in ebook publishing in particular, Leanpub is at the forefront of how authors are using AI.

In this livestream, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp gives his own views on how AI is transforming the world of writing and books, particularly in the dynamic and growing realm of self-publishing.

Here's the article Len talks about in the livestream:

The Prehistory of A.I. Slop

Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.

The New YorkerJill Lepore