A short YouTube monologue (by Julie Broad) arguing that modern AI systems decide which books and authors get discovered by assessing whether an author is an identifiable, trusted entity online. The speaker gives three practical moves—own your topic, build visible credibility (mentions/interviews/quotes), and ensure consistent, connected online profiles—so AI will recommend the author’s work rather than ignore it.
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If AI had to decide today whether you matter as an author, would it erase you or elevate you? Most authors don't realize this, but AI is already deciding what books deserve to be discovered and which authors get digitally erased. All right, here's the cold hard truth. AI does not care how brilliant your book is. It cares whether you are an identifiable trusted entity. If AI can't figure out who you are, what you know, or why anyone should trust you, your book will not be recommended. Not on Amazon, Google, not anywhere. So what moves the needle? Well, own your topic. Make it so obvious that you are the go to expert on what it is you talk about. Stack credibility. Mentions get interviewed, get quoted, get listed. Network with people who will talk about you online. And of course, number three, be consistent across the web. If AI can't connect all your profiles into one coherent human, it will just ignore you. You don't need to chase keywords anymore. You need to become recognizable enough that machines say, oh, that author. Yeah, let's show their book. Because this is exactly what this person is looking for. Once you do all this, everything you create gets amplified. If you have not created an entity around you, you're probably invisible. But once you get that authority, entity status, everything you create gets amplified.
