I watched too many of these videos, all of which lay out the same strategy. And sure enough, a brief Youtube search reveals video after video with titles like “ EASY AI Money: Make $100k Writing Children’s Books with ChatGPT and Midjourney ” and “ Easy PASSIVE Income With ChatGPT and Midjourney Creating Children’s Books ”. Each page may only have a paragraph or two without looking suspiciously light. That’s why all of Tim Boucher’s books were just a couple thousand words long.Ĭhildren’s books are a different story (forgive the pun) because they are heavy on illustrations but light on text. There’s only one problem: getting ChatGPT to write an entire proper novel (50k+ words) is basically impossible right now. ChatGPT and other large language models provide an incredible opportunity for these hustlers to increase their output. A human being can only write so fast, even if they’re just re-wording a Wikipedia article. The main barrier in terms of both production time and profitability was the ghostwriting. The goal was to trick enough people searching for real books on various topics into buying trash books that the whole endeavor turned a profit. The writing was all done by barely paid ghostwriters. The topics of the books didn’t really matter, as long as they included keywords that corresponded to popular searches on Amazon.
Late last year Folding Ideas, a YouTube channel run by researcher / writer Dan Olson, published an investigation into a group of Amazon con-artists who promise their followers big money if they take classes to learn how to mass-produce and sell low-quality books on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) and Audible.
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