Writers: How to Train Your AI: Make AI Your Assistant Without Letting It Become Your Author
by D.J. Brien
About the book
AI can write. The harder question is whether it can help you write without slowly taking over the job. D.J. Brien learned that distinction the hard way. After experimenting with AI-generated fiction, she discovered something unexpected: artificial intelligence was far more useful when she stopped asking it to be the writer and started training it to be the assistant. Writers: How to Train Your AI is a practical guide to building that working relationship. AI can brainstorm, analyze a manuscript, track continuity, organize research, help with editing and publishing, and throw ideas back at you faster than any human writing partner. It can also invent facts, flatten your voice, turn possibilities into canon, confidently misunderstand instructions, and assure you that a terrible idea is brilliant. The solution isn't a collection of magic prompts. It's learning how to make the machine work for you. You'll learn how to establish useful boundaries, give AI the context it actually needs, protect your voice, separate brainstorming from decisions, recognize hallucinations and confident nonsense, know when to correct the AI—and when to reset and start fresh. Most importantly, you'll learn where the machine's job should end and yours should begin. Because AI can generate possibilities. The writer still has to judge them. Funny, practical, skeptical when skepticism is warranted, and based on hundreds of real conversations between a working writer and AI, this is not a book about replacing writers. It's about giving writers a very capable assistant—and keeping the writer firmly in charge.
What to expect
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Available as an ebook.
About the author
D.J. Brien writes about artificial intelligence, writing, and the increasingly complicated business of independent publishing. Her books combine practical experience with humor and an abiding interest in what happens when new technology meets the ordinary work of writing and publishing a book. Her books include The Machine That Knew Better, Writers: How to Train Your AI, and Your Book Is the Easy Part: How Independent Publishing Turned Writers Into an Entire Production Department. From learning how to work effectively with AI to navigating the expanding job description of the independent author, Brien writes about the experience from inside it—with curiosity, skepticism, and a willingness to laugh when the machinery becomes ridiculous.
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