Unable to write conventionally due to cognitive disabilities, debut author Ellen Rae pioneered a new collaborative approach to achieve her lifelong dream. She prompted ChatGPT with fictional scenes interwoven with memories and struggles from her own life, which the AI tool then translated paragraph by paragraph into a cohesive narrative.
The resulting 275,000-word chat log fully captured Rae’s groundbreaking creativity process. From this text, a tight 54,000-word novel emerged that draws readers into a gripping plot and the real-world debate surrounding AI writing and copyright protections.
Leveraging technology to democratize publishing access for populations long excluded from the craft, Rae persevered through barriers that once made authorship unattainable. The story builds chapter by chapter before reaching a climactic finale.
Beyond its ability to entertain, this book represents a milestone in augmenting human creativity with artificial intelligence. Rae’s perseverance from the kernel of an idea to a potentially precedent-setting published novel reflects the future democratization of authorship through AI assistance.
Let the characters of AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words catapult you into the middle of the fight over legal rights for both human creators and the machine tools expanding what’s possible. Then, decide for yourself who ultimately wrote this book – Ellen Rae or ChatGPT? And does it matter if this groundbreaking technology enabled the telling of this tale?
Ellen Rae is the author’s pseudonym for Elisa Rae Shupe.
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