OK so I'm a short story writer (I have ten volumes). And the world is being flooded by Chat GPT stories. And I take this seriously: "You won't be replaced by Chat GPT, but you will be replaced by someone who knows how to use it." So should I be learning how to use it? It wouldn't be that hard to learn.
Lately I've been fantasizing about figuring out how to crank something out that would actually make money. The problem with what I write now, is that not enough people know about me. That wouldn't change if I started creating Chat GPT stories, but if I could truly crank them out people would find me just because of sheer volume. Rather than putting out a book of short stories every year or so, I could put one out every week. Or every month, at the very least.
I've noticed that themed stories in general do better than a book that just says, short stories. I'd like to do one about Disney, for example, twenty-five stories (or whatever) from the Magical Kingdom. But that's the kind of thing Chat GPT would do very well on. I could tell it I want ironic commentary on the nature of loving fantasy, of being taken in by that whole Mickey thing. I'm sure Chat GPT would understand - actually I'm not sure, but if it were to put a lot of Mickey and Goofy in there, that would have the same effect.
Another thing I thought of is making my next collection of short stories (I have about six so far) all about writing in general, and name it, A Real Person Wrote These" or some such thing. Not that I really know what's going on; I don't. I might try to download a couple of ChatGPT short stories just so I'd know what I'm talking about. Or write a few.
One interesting experiment would be to see if I could hide ChatGPT stories inside a book of real ones, and see if people can detect the real ones. I could become famous that way, especially if nobody could. It would be worth a try.
Stay posted, and I'll let you know. Is ChatGPT like an app or something, that I can just download?