Your AI Is Lying About Your Book

The chatbot told him his manuscript was brilliant. The humans gave his manuscript a C. That's what happened to one author who trusted AI as his editor. If you use AI to help with your editing, it's probably lying to you too, and not just once in a while. In this week’s episode, I talked with Matthew Bowman, a freelance science fiction and fantasy editor who has worked with authors for 16 years and runs the Novel Ninja blog. Matthew helped me develop many of the anti-flattery techniques behind the Patron Toolbox, and he's spent the past year testing which prompts actually get AI to tell the truth. Here's some of what we cover. What happens when you tell the AI someone else wrote your chapter? Which two-word phrase flips every major AI into a mode where it tells the truth? What's the one small fib that makes an AI ruthlessly critical of the work you show it? Listen in or read the blog post before your next draft goes out, so your first honest feedback doesn't come from a one-star review. Blog link: https://www.authormedia.com/ai-is-lying-to-you-about-your-book/ Authormedia.social link: YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/htdXu0-xjR0 Support the show