What if the next Prix Goncourt was written by ChatGPT? While the idea may seem crazy, it shouldn’t be so much in the future, as the number of books written by ChatGPT continues to grow.
Amazon and its Kindle online bookstore even now list more than 200 books written by the OpenAI chatbot. Novels, technical manuals or children’s books where ChatGPT is always credited as author or co-author. Something that worries writers about their future in the sector.
Career change
With Kindle, in fact, it’s very easy to self-publish your work and thus earn money on publication. As Reuters indicates, some even think about making a career thanks to ChatGPT. Brett Schicker, for example, published sammy the squirrel, a 30-page children’s book that sold for $2.99 digitally and $9.99 on paper. Because Amazon also offers new authors to print the book for them.
The children’s book written by ChatGPT earned Brett Schicker just under $100. It’s not a bestseller, but enough to encourage the American to continue his momentum. In fact, ChatGPT can offer infinite stories, specifying a specific scenario, genre or type of pages.
Writers out of work soon?
But this facilitation of writing novels still worries authors and publishers, overwhelmed by the works arising from the spirit of ChatGPT.
For its part, Amazon currently has no intention of curbing this phenomenon.
HE american giant It has even added a “Books on Using ChatGPT” category to Kindle, where you can now find many books on the subject, especially in French.
Source: BFM TV
