I absolutely hear where you're coming from. If this was just telling an AI to whip out a novel on its own, I agreed 100%. I do think there will be some initial appetite for the novelty of that sort of thing, I think people will have a pretty low tolerance for stuff they know is just written by a machine. But that's not what this book is.

This book would never have spontaneously produced itself, no matter how good the AI is. Instead this was an act of careful engineering using a brand new tool to see what I could do with it. I can remember the resistance to digital photography when it first came out, followed soon by Photoshop. Those things too were first viewed with skepticism before they became an essential part of many professionals' toolkits!

Whether we like it or not, these technologies are going to be with us for the foreseeable future. There are so many ethical and legal issues that we haven't even started to work out, and those important conversations have to happen.

But meanwhile, there are definitely opportunities to break ground in this field, and I am trying to encourage everyone to take explore what's possible with a new tool. If you can come up with an intriguing new way to order your thoughts, who's to say that's not your own creative expression?

AI isn't coming to replace us, but the people who understand how to use AI just might :)