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Search YouTube for ChatGPT and KDP (Amazon's self-publishing platform) and you'll see hundreds of videos that show how its done, often with ridiculous promises of thousands of dollars per month in "passive income." Some have even started using Midjourney for the covers or kids books illustrations. The YouTubers are often pumping expensive "masterclasses" to suckers looking to make an easy buck.

Amazon does not nothing to shut down the YouTubers or the grifters publishing these books. Anything that adds friction or requires human intervention - whether it's policies with teeth or staff to issue takedowns - reduces the bottom line.



I highly encourage everyone online to visit BlackHatWorld forum at least once.

Really opens your mind to the amount of grift and scams and shady stuff that happens online.


LinkedIn is already full of tax reduction and early retirement advisors. No need to go to BlackHatWorld forum.


The folding ideas video on these "masterclasses" is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

This is about using underpaid ghostwriters to write the books, but obviously using AI is just the next logical step. The funny thing is that even before people were using AI, this sort of thing obviously did not work


That is perfect. Say there is something topical approaching which will might require output of [ A | B | ... ]. Just prompt output for all possible outcomes and press publish on the ones that match the actual outcome (in this member of the multiverse).


To close the loop we just need someone to write a ChatGPT book on how to write a ChatGPT book.




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