I was sitting on a cafe listening to a podcast where I heard about a sci-fi author banging out 40+ books per year. How are they doing that?, I thought. Either a team of ghost writers, a boat load of cocaine, or they are using AI.

So I decided to test the frontier of AI, this was back in the early chat GPT era. I downloaded the app and proceeded to go through aln the steps of writing a novel, outline, summary of characters, plot summary, draft chapters, finalised chapters. I had an unedited manuscript by the time I was thinking about my 2nd coffee. It was a terrible novel, but it did have flashes of brilliance that could be harvested and iteratively shaped into something better.

I proved my thesis that AI could mass produce fiction at scale, and If I had a boat load of cocaine the AI and I could probably output 40 books per week.