ChatGPT, OpenAI’s 4th generation of artificial intelligence, is a powerful tool to create content from blog posts, to books and even codes. Short of six months since it has been publicly available, over 1,000 books have been published on Amazon with ChatGPT involvement and it is estimated that 12 of them have been written without human input. The success and reception of such works, however, is still lukewarm with only 91 books having received reviews and 95 percent failing to provide a return.
Vishesh Gupta, CBH’s data compiler, states that ChatGPT can indeed produce books, but with a heavy input of value from human co-authors. Only three books have been written solely by ChatGPT and the subject matter might not be much attractive for readers. Therefore, for those wishing to become an overnight sensation and write a best seller using the technology, this case study will likely make them think twice.
Despite the AI’s potential to generate content, it remains to be seen if this will lead to the death of the content writers’ job, since most of the books require human value addition. Therefore, the study shows that it is still necessary to rework the content by a human eye to make sure the articles are high-quality, provides value to readers, potentially ranks in Google search results, and follows the original ideas of the article.
Ed Jones, a Copyright AFP journalist, recently reported on the use of ChatGPT by Chinese schoolchildren to reduce their workload. Despite this popular use, teachers have grown worried over the possibilities of cheating and plagiarism.
ChatGPT is a promising step towards the novel use of Artificial Intelligence and automatization of certain tasks. For now however, it serves best as an auxiliary tool at best to the content writer.
