Several “self-proclaimed” authors are self-publishing their books on Amazon using ChatGPT and DallE-2 to create covers and illustrations. The majority of these authors conceal the fact that ChatGPT coauthored their works.
Imagine finding out that your favorite childhood book was written by a computer program rather than a real person. In any case, that is precisely what might transpire in the not-too-distant future.

A number of self-described “authors” who have always wanted to write but never had the time or “inspiration” to actually write are using ChatGPT to write stories and books and selling them on Amazon for a nice little profit.

ChatGPT turns into a professional writer and an artist
ChatGPT has been standing out as truly newsworthy since it was sent off in November last year, for its capacity to draft blocks of message with practically amazing language, and accentuation. Naturally, many people who had always wanted to write tried playing around with the program and quickly discovered that writing with ChatGPT is actually easy.
One such American salesman who writes children’s books used ChatGPT to write a children’s book of 30 pages in a few hours.

Additionally, he used OpenAI’s Dalle2 to generate caricatures and illustrations for his children’s book, which he self-published through Amazon. He began selling the book on Amazon’s e-commerce platform for $9.99 for the printed version and $2.99 for the digital version, making approximately $100 in the first week.

“How to Write and Generate Content Using ChatGPT,” “The Power of Homework,” and the poetry collection “Echoes of the Cosmos” are among the more than 200 Kindle books with ChatGPT listed as an author or co-author as of the middle of February. Additionally, the number is increasing daily. There is even a new subgenre on Amazon: books written entirely by ChatGPT on how to use ChatGPT.

It is practically impossible to obtain an accurate count of how many e-books may have been written by the AI bot due to the nature of ChatGPT and the fact that many authors refuse to disclose how they use it. However, experts believe the number of titles to be in the hundreds, if not thousands.

Process that is democratic, but is it fair?
Anyone who has attempted to publish a book knows how challenging it can be for first-time authors. Self-publishing became so popular for this reason. Ghostwriting, on the other hand, may be going a little too far given ChatGPT and its limitations. Because ChatGPT learns to write by scanning millions of pages of existing text, there are concerns regarding the authenticity of the text it generates.

Aspiring authors and self-help experts looking to make a quick buck are turning to ChatGPT to help them create bot-made e-books and publish them through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing arm, the software is poised to disrupt the traditional book industry. First-time authors love illustrated children’s books.

On YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit, hundreds of instructions on how to write a book in a few hours have appeared. Recipes, instructions for software development, get-rich-quick schemes, and nutrition tips are among the topics covered.

“This is something that should cause us concern; According to Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Writers Guild, “a lot of authors will be out of work as a result of these publications flooding the market.” She asserts that human ghostwriting has a long history, but the potential for AI automation could transform book writing into a commodity.

She went on to say, “Authors and platforms must be transparent about how these books are made, or you’ll end up with a lot of publications of low quality.”

One author, writing under the pseudonym Frank White, demonstrated how to write a 119-page novella in less than a day in a YouTube video. On Amazon’s Kindle e-book store, you can purchase the book for one dollar. White asserts in the video that utilizing AI, anyone with the resources and time could produce 300 of these books annually.

Because Amazon’s regulations do not require it, some authors, like White, believe they do not need to disclose in the Kindle store that their novel was entirely written by a machine.