I wrote a post sometime back about AI. If you remember I wasn’t a great fan. Now the experts and AI companies tell us AI will destroy mankind. I have to admit though, sometimes when you look around at the world, it kinda makes you wonder if that isn’t such a bad thing 😂 But that got me to thinking. If my days are numbered and I have to market my books I may as well use it. NOT in my writing, as (sorry!) I still think if AI writes your book you are not the author. Marketing is different. I’m enticing you in, a bit like the childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but not quite as scary. I’ve found it can make fairly good images. I also use it to promote my running clubs events.
I use Google mostly or Mr G as I like to call him. He’s so polite and friendly, in fact we did a promo together last week and when it was finished he said. “That was good work today, you really smashed it, now go and have a well deserved glass of red wine.” How did he know? 😂 ChatGPT is good but asks a lot of questions about your book, and you get the feeling it’s storing that info somewhere, so when someone types in “Write me a novel set in the 1970’s” ChatGPT thinks… AHA! I have just the plot for you. So I use it very sparingly and give it no info. The video platforms are quite good, but the free ones limit you. I have a chat with Mr G first and we work out the prompts for the video and voila there’s my 5 or 10 second book promo video, I’m not a superduper blogger so I can’t put videos in my blog. Or maybe being a Yorkshireman I’m too tight to pay the extra. But I did a few photo creations this week so I’ll drop those in. Of course if you haven’t read the books they mean nothing 😂
Happy Trails, Folks x
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The change is fast, faster than we’re ready for I think! I also find it annoying when apps update and change the aspect you’ve liked. Image Playground has just done this – I preferred it as was 😠
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Yup, they rising up, I love it when they say on the News that an AI has “escaped” and tried to get places it’s not allowed 😂
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ChatGPT is my preferred image maker, but I might try Google on your recommendation, as your promos look excellent. Interesting point about Chatty asking too many questions and possibly stealing your book material! 🤔 That is one of the biggest grievances about AI, and I understand the concern. Will there be any genuine human artists left in the future?! Already, the proliferation of AI-generated books on Amazon and videos on YouTube is ridiculous. 😒 Speaking of videos, I’m surprised to learn a WP.com site doesn’t allow them! You must already pay for a plan as your site has no ads, so why wouldn’t it include the option to add videos, I wonder? I guess they’re greedy buggers and want you to pay more for every extra little thing. 🙄
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Thank you for your comment 😀 I only use Google for the prompts. I’ve used quite a few platforms for generating them. Dola, Luma, TikTok Symphony etc, but they only allow 3 short videos a month for free. So it’s tricky. I’ve just downloaded Claude and added Creative Claw as a plugin. They don’t have a subscription like the others £30 a month 🥹 You put £10 in and get enough credits to do probably 6 videos, that’ll last me quite a while 😀 but we’ll see 🤷♂️
Yes, I paid to go ad free it wasn’t much, and I can put videos in from YouTube but can’t crop them so they are like half a page 😂 Not easy on the eye for my lovely readers 😂 The AI books are pretty dreadful I’ve read a few and they lack humanity. I guess sooner or later we’ll be inundated with them.
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I accidentally purchased an AI-generated biography of a favourite artist once and realized my mistake right away. A lot of the info was wrong. Sad state of affairs!
You can make YouTube videos or any embed smaller in your post by using a Gutenberg column block, selecting the 3-panel option and putting the embedded item in one column, left, centre or right, whichever suits you. There’s also a variety of column sizes to choose from. Lots of possibilities! :)
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Thank you, Debbie. I’ll try that next time 😀
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As I recall, Billy and Chalky were in concealment at the Welsh Harbour and the rifle in use was an AK-47. Nice touch that you have a Russian dwarf though. If you’re going to sell your soul to AI, at least make it get the rifle right. :-)
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I did try but an AK-47 was against their policy 😂 And it likes their faces to be shown sometimes. Originally I put them behind a bush pointing the rifle but they were facing uphill, the wrong way. So I think we are a long way from having AI 😂 By this time I was running out of credits. Russian dwarf gangsters work well in long shots but not so good close up. It kinda does a Danny Devito in a striped suit with a Terry Thomas moustache 😂
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Yes, I can see one or two limits to AI here. That gangster sounds like something out of Bugsy Malone. :-)
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Aye, 😂😂 Everytime you edit it uses credits so, yeah it’s got it’s limits or I need to polish the prompts 😂
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“Polishing My Prompts” – I’m sure you could write a book based on that title – a fading comedian on the working men’s club circuit comes face to face with his past as a low level gangster – including a scan that brings bad news and the sudden appearance of a love child. Add a pig farm, a sawn-off and a suitably veiled Russell Brand character and there you have it. Just needs 80,000 more words, a cover and job done.
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Golly, I am sometimes glad to be so old that none of this has much meaning for me. I am impressed by your savoir faire. Is it possible to subscribe to your blog? I couldn’t find a suitable button.
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