It breaks my heart to see writers I have been following for over a decade to succumb to writing their books via AI.
They perhaps seem to think that no one is noticing. Or that writing via AI would make their writing (presumably) better. Spoiler: It isn’t. Or that they think that they should outsource writing to an LLM and do something more meaningful themselves.
I only wonder, if a author thinks something else is more important than writing, what is the point of even playing that game?
As a reader (and writer and a book ghostwriter of bestsellers that have never used a single word of AI), here is what I think:
That the author did not do the emotional labour to think through the difficult parts of the book.
That the author did not have the understanding of their own thoughts, let alone providing the clarity to their audience.
That the author really does not care about a connection with the audience, and all they care about is capitalising on their past success, which was either through their previous works or millions of followers.
Art was hard even when Shakespeare used to write. Art is hard now even when we write on laptops lighter than Shakespeare’s pen. It is the journey of going through that hard which makes art worth consuming.
