Technology has made humans faster. Much faster. Thanks to technology, you can drive down the road at 70 miles per hour alongside thousands of others. Then when you get home, you can contact people across the globe in real-time. And now, you can even write and publish your children’s book or nonfiction book in ten days.
At least that’s what the ads claim. The truth is a little bit more complicated.
So, Can You Write and Publish a Book in 10 Days?
If you wonder if it’s possible to write and publish a children’s or nonfiction book in ten days, the answer is yes. After all, you can do whatever you want. In fact, with AI, you can knock out a book even faster if you want.
However, you shouldn’t expect to create a great book this quickly. In fact, your ten-day book may not even be good. If that doesn’t matter to you, then feel free to use artificial intelligence to write and publish your book. But if you want something better, plan to spend more than ten days to make it happen.
And I’m not the only one who feels this way. The New York Times recently published an article about the problem with trusting AI to write your memoir.
The Weaknesses of AI-Generated Copy
Helpful as AI may be, it struggles with creative tasks, such as writing books or creating art with the proper number of fingers. What makes AI a bad choice for writing and publishing your book in ten days?
- Resources. Depending on the AI technology you use, your AI may have access to every document on the internet. There’s just one problem. Your brain, the source of your story, rests on top of your shoulders and is not available in a digital format that AI can scan. So, while AI can piece together a story, it cannot create the story that is uniquely yours. That story is in your brain. Bonus bummer: If someone else feeds the same prompt to the same AI platform as you, that other person may get the exact same results. So, your story isn’t your story after all.
- Depth. Humans are storytellers, and we infuse meaning into events. Computers are robots that spit out data. When you’re writing a story, you need to bounce ideas off of a real person, someone who will push you to dig deeper into your story. This process can be uncomfortable, especially if you’re recalling hard moments in your past for a memoir or other nonfiction book. Hard as it may be, it’s a little easier when you know the other person cares about you. Despite AI’s sweet-sounding response, you’re still working with a robot.
- Novelty. By its nature, AI can only mimic. It cannot break conventions in order to draw attention to a certain detail of your story or push other limits. It’s a machine, and it acts like a machine. So, it strips you of the ability to take your story somewhere new. Your book is your legacy, and it deserves to be uniquely yours.
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