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Some were upset about how AI image generators use their work, while others took issue with the quality of the writing. The book went viral on Twitter after it was met with intense backlash from creatives. Reshi self-published 'Alice and Sparkle' as a paperback on Amazon's bookstore for free via a service called KDP. Ammaar Reshi, a product-design manager at a financial-tech company based in San Francisco, told Insider he wrote and illustrated a children's book in 72 hours using ChatGPT and Midjourney. The Kindle version of the book is free but a paperback costs $11.99.Īnother popular genre is children's books written by ChatGPT and illustrated by other AI programs. One paperback where the bot is listed as a coauthor, 'ChatGPT on ChatGPT: The AI Explains Itself,' was described as having been 'written entirely' by the AI bot. Several books are guides to using the chatbot.

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