Hal Elrod and a co-speaker explain how to use AI as a writing tool without creating garbage or ignoring it entirely. Train it on your knowledge and voice first, then use it to make your book smarter, not to replace your work.
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There's one more topic I want to talk about, which is AI.
For me, I'm thinking about AI when it comes to writing a book and publishing a book, like what that looks like. There's the wrong way to do it, which is the AI slop, right? You're just like, hey, write me about this and oh cool, right? And then I'm just curious how you use AI as a business owner scaling a business, if either of those fit.
Yeah, both of them fit. I think when it comes to AI and book writing, people make two big mistakes. One is they bury their head in the sand and pretend that it doesn't exist. I think the second thing is they just think that they can press a couple buttons and ship a book, and it is AI slop. And I think What actually people should do instead is use AI to write a better book. How do you do that though? Your AI is only as good as you train it on several things. I mean, what you know and how you talk. And so I think those two things are really important. So then you gotta spend the time upfront to do that training.
But we look at AI as author intelligence.
And so how do we use it to make authors smarter and to make their writing better? And so that's what we're focused on is using it to create better books.