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
