I Used ChatGPT to Write a Book. And I Published it | ChatGPT for Authors | Writing a Novel With AI

So when I was a kid I really wished that I had a robot to do my chores for me. Now I have a robot

to do my work for me but is this as cool as it sounds or should we be worried? This is Legends

of the Shadow Woods, and though I am publishing it I didn't really write it. Or did I? [Music]

I used ChatGPT to write this Novella and it's available on Amazon for 99 cents right

now. "Embark on a journey through the mystical Shadow Woods with Legends of the Shadow Woods,

a collection of tales based on Greek mythology. Follow the hero Ajax as he battles sorceresses

and monsters, uncovers ancient artifacts, and discovers his true destiny. These action-packed

and thrilling stories will keep you on the edge of your seat as you delve deeper into the rich

world of the Shadow Woods." AI wrote that blurb too. Along with using AI to write the book I also

used a different AI to make the cover. I'm sure everybody has heard of ChatGPT by now,

but if you're not familiar, "ChatGPT is a computer program that can understand and respond to written

language like a human it can generate text that is coherent and contextually relevant by making

use of the input it receives and by learning from the examples of text it has been trained

on." And guess what? ChatGPT wrote that part too. I've seen people using ChatGPT for all kinds of

things lately from writing essays and resumes to creating poetry and songs. In early January

I saw a video of somebody using ChatGPT to write a children's picture book and got the idea that

"hey I can do that too." So I did but instead of a children's book I wrote a fantasy Novella.

Initially I wasn't even planning on sharing this, I just wanted to play around with the technology

but as I started working on it I realized that I was putting kind of a decent amount of time into

it and I had so many notes that I thought maybe somebody else would find it interesting too. So

in this video I'll just talk about my process for creating this Novella and also some of my thoughts

on the program in general. So first getting into the generating process I started using

using ChatGPT January 5th and I was just kind of learning how it works and generally playing around

with it. On the ninth I started working on this project I didn't influence it too much with story

direction or characters when creating a world for these stories to take place in I straight

up asked it "What kind of fantasy world should I write about?" And here's the responses that it

gave me. "1. a world with multiple intelligent species living together such as humans elves

dwarfs and dragons. 2. a world with a unique Magic system such as one where magic is fueled

by emotions or one where only certain people are born with the ability to use magic. 3. a world

that is inspired by a particular historical time period or culture such as ancient Egypt or fetal

Japan. 4. a world that is entirely made up of one biome such as a world entirely covered in dense

rainforest or a world made up of floating islands in the sky." So this is actually a really good

example of what most of my prompts and answers look like. I would ask ChatGPT for some options

and I'd choose from the ones that I thought would work best. I went with a fantasy world based on

Greek mythology because I thought it would give the stories the best chance of succeeding. So

I'll get more into the limits later but I thought that Greek mythology would work well well because

ChatGPT would already have a really large base of information to work off of. Another reason is that

with the samples of text that I got it to produce previously were kind of vague in style. It kind of

reminded me of how stories from mythology are told so I thought the style would actually kind of fit