Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- Here’s a fascinating trip down a rabbit hole on the topic of the word “Ye”, and the letter thorn.
- Ken Whyte explains how books are sold in legacy publishing.
- Kate McKean has advice on choosing comps (comparable titles).
- Someone used ChatGPT to finish the Game of Thrones series. (hey, it doesn’t look like George will get around to it, so why not let the AI have a shot?)
- Kristin Lamb shares 13 reasons why authors are easily mistaken for serial killers.
Apparently the programmer who used ChatGPT to write the conclusion to “A Song of Ice and Fire” has pulled the project after being referenced in the author lawsuit against ChatGPT. The links to the text in the article now return 404s. Here’s the statement he replaced the ChatGPT text with:
“I am just now learning that I was mentioned in a legal document pertaining to the OpenAI lawsuit. I have removed the project from GitHub. Should any of George R. R. Martin’s representatives wish to reach out, my contact info remains available.”
Kinda too bad, I was curious to see it. Sounds like it wasn’t as humorously awful as the Harry Potter AI-generated story about the “large pile of ash” from a while ago …