{"id":158795,"date":"2023-02-23T00:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/chatgpt-launches-boom-in-ai-written-e-books-on-amazon"},"modified":"2023-02-23T00:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:27:49","slug":"chatgpt-launches-boom-in-ai-written-e-books-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/chatgpt-launches-boom-in-ai-written-e-books-on-amazon","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatgpt-launches-boom-in-ai-written-e-books-on-amazon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (Reuters) \u2014 Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. But after learning about the <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/chatgpts-popularity-explodes-us-lawmakers-take-an-interest-2023-02-13\/\" class=\"\">ChatGPT artificial intelligence program<\/a>, Schickler figured an opportunity had landed in his lap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of writing a book finally seemed possible,\u201d said Schickler, a salesman in Rochester, New York. \u201cI thought \u2018I can do this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using the AI software, which can generate blocks of text from simple prompts, Schickler created a 30-page illustrated children\u2019s e-book in a matter of hours, offering it for sale in January through <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc\u2019s <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/AMZN.O\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(AMZN.O)<\/a> self-publishing unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (Reuters) \u2014 Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. But after learning about the ChatGPT artificial intelligence program, Schickler figured an opportunity had landed in his lap. \u201cThe idea of writing a book finally seemed possible,\u201d said Schickler, a salesman [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}