Kai L. Fuchs

Yes. I thought about putting it into an (English) blog post, but I don’t have a blog 😅

Thanks! I generated the whole book (80 pages), with chapter-specific prompts. Additional editing was necessary and the content is a bit bland. Plus a critical review (without AI). Was thinking about doing this in English, too, but the depth is, well, medium.

But to be fair, it is a great tool for sparring - even for fiction (different project of mine - written by myself 😉).

Summary: AI results in shallow stuff, don’t use generative AI for in-depth topics, don’t use it for fiction (or at least say so such that we can stay clear 😅). However, the impact of #genAI is frightening, as we all know. No idea how this will work out for #writers in the end.

If you can read German, the experiment of a generated non-fiction book is available now : www.kaifuchs.de Most of the fun was the comment on AI impact. Thinking about translating it to English as a blog post. Don’t have a blog, though. #aiwriting #amwriting #chatgpt

Mercanary? Werecanary?

Same for me. The experiment is a non-fiction high-level overview which I really expected to exist. Even there, the style is without any personal touch. I don’t think this would work in fiction.

Finished the appendix to my book written by #ChatGPT yesterday. No #AI book without critical discussion. Honestly, currently I think the whole book is just an excuse to highlight the issues and impact of AI on #writing. No solution from my side, just ideas. #amwriting Next: proofreading

Sounds familiar. I currently try to just describe the scene to get it from head to paper, and actually write it only in a second go. For me, this helps (occasionally) … Still kind of frustrating.

Sounds cool, looking forward to it!

Mind to share the topic, or is it still a secret?

You‘d like to post more? I’d like to read more. Win-win.

Current insights: for nonfiction books that go for a general overview, ChatGPT might be a thing - if you are ok with skipping all the references. Which might not be what you are looking for.

Need to remind myself that it is for a general audience. I tend to get hectic and draft a scientific paper on the topic of #aiwriting. But then again, maybe that’s worth it, too?

Ordered preprints of my book „Shuhari - The cycle of mastery“ written with #ChatGPT. In parallel, I started writing the appendix (without ChatGPT) to critically discuss the process of coauthoring with #AI. 50% of draft finished. #amwriting #authors

I am curiously looking forward how this will be solved. And I am not without hope to have a world with both cool AI and compensation for writers. No idea about the details (yet).

Experimenting with AI in writing myself currently, I can only say: don’t give them money. It’s not worth it. Most of what they promise is already there for free.

Also, its less then 4 full days of work that I spent up to now! That's somewhat ridiculous.

A chart splitting spent time if 31.75 hours to different categories, the largest being editing (8.5 hours), coding (5.75 hours), typesetting (4.25 hours), and prompt design (3.5 hours).

Done! My book about #shuhari written with #ChatGPT is in preprint. Means: The chapter about working with #AI is still missing, but the content is finished. Why preprint? I want to gift it to someone dear. The AI chapter will come, and then it will be publicly available. #amwriting #booksky #amauthor

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Chart splitting spent time of 28.25 hours into categories, with the largest categories of editing (6.5 hours), coding (5.75 hours), typesetting (3.75 hours), and prompt design (3.5 hours).

It's getting real. Final draft written by #ChatGPT is ready to read. Spent some time finetuning prompts and harmonizing grammar. Plan to upload the final version tomorrow evening. I want to have this book in print as a gift by Friday. #aiwriting #writing #amwriting #booksky

Cannot say anything about everywhere, but being curious, I started experimenting with letting it write a (nonfiction) book. Will frame the result with critical reflections. Halfway into it.

Chart splitting spent time of 17.75 hours into nine different categories, where coding, prompt design, ideation and editing are the four largest.

Experiment still going on, editing the book chapters written by #ChatGPT starts to get a visible chunk on my time tracking. Planned to do some research on #selfpublishing, but missed it this weekend. Editing at 50% raw draft, framing comments not drafted yet. Nearly 18h now. #ai #aiwriting #writing

A chart splitting 15.75 hours to the following categories: coding, prompt design, ideation, editing, prototyping, text structure, social media.

First review of 53 pages written by #ChatGPT - not much, but it reads surprisingly well! Minor expression problems/typos, one obvious misinformation, but aside from that, it’s sometimes even entertaining. Decision: I will finish and publish this. Time spent: 15.75 hours. #aiwriting #writing #booksky

Diagram spliiting 13.5 hours to the categories coding, prompt design, ideation, prototyping, and text structure.

Letting #ChatGPT write the book it invented takes shape. Switched from prompts that are based on chapter names to manual prompts that describe the content per chapter precisely. 13.5 hours spent, draft 1 is on the printer. Curious where this will lead to. #aiwriting #writing #booksky

Take your word on that! 😁

Totally need that.

Want to read!! Where can I preorder?

Not that bad. Sounds like a start.

Are there any K-8 Seattle-area teachers out there looking for donated age-appropriate, recent, award-winning books by BIPOC authors for your classroom? We have books left over from the book fair we held this past spring. Thanks to a generous supporter, they're already paid for. I can deliver.