Sci-Fi Novelist Claims AI Assistance in Producing 97 Novels in Nine Months

"AI has proven to be a remarkable catalyst for my creative work," he said in Newsweek. It has given me the ability to do more work while keeping a level of quality, and it has made it possible for me to dive quickly into complex world-building.

on May 23, 2023

Sci-Fi Novelist Claims AI Assistance in Producing 97 Novels in Nine Months

Tim Boucher, a sci-fi novelist, claims that AI has assisted him in producing 97 novels in the past nine months.

In a Newsweek story, Boucher claimed that he had utilized ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude for idea development, text production, and the AI picture generator Midjourney, to create the books' illustrations.

Each book in Boucher's series has between 40 and 140 AI-generated graphics and 2,000 to 5,000 text. He claimed that while the process of using AI technologies to generate and publish books typically takes six to eight hours, some may be completed in as little as three.

The books on the author's website range from $1.99 to $3.99.

In recent months, the market has been overrun with AI-generated books.

More than 200 publications in Amazon's marketplace had the author or coauthor attribution of ChatGPT in February. Children's books and AI guides were two of the most popular categories.

Ammaar Reshi, a product-design manager at a San Francisco-based fintech business, recently revealed to Insider that he used ChatGPT and Midjourney to write and draw a children's book in 72 hours.

Reshi's novel, "Alice and Sparkle," gained a lot of negative attention from the creative community and quickly became popular on Twitter. Others objected to the writing's caliber, while some were offended by how artificial intelligence picture producers used their creations.

Outside of regular business hours, Insider contacted Boucher for comment, but he did not react immediately.