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AI: How do I use it.

Firstly, my book is 100% human-written, and all the pictures used are mine.

In general, AI kills creativity if used otherwise. I only use AI as a tool for improvement.

Writing a proper prompt is the main trick, and so many people are messing with that. Just write what you want it to do, then simply ask it to make that a proper prompt before executing it, following these four basic rules:

1> Make the AI 'do' not 'think'

2> Specify objective for output

3> Specific format for answer

4> List of things to avoid.

AI Tools I use:

Quillbot: I pay for this service. They say they’re the ultimate tool for writers. I 've been testing for them since the beginning but the last year they 've been adding a tonne of crap to try to appeal to a wider audience . Tone of voice, fluency, humanising and keeping to UK spelling... I just love it even though I sometimes get small bugs. “I can use it everywhere, on my PC browser or on my cell phone. Someday I’ll get the energy to fix the reading level of the whole book. It’s still a dream but it’s a lot of work.

Google Gemini: I do not pay for Gemini, or Claude or Perplexity or ChatGPT as I do not believe it is worth the money. But that doesn't mean I won't be using it. 😉 I decide which service to use my free tokens on based on whether I'm doing tasks privately or for work. That way if I run out that month I can always go to another service. Just found out I can access Gemini through my Chrome browser, I don't know if it's a bug but it doesn't count towards my token count. I write my book in Google Sheets. I open a Gemini window in the browser. The entire book loads.😗 That is a miracle all by itself. The only thing that does not work so far is a plagiarism check of the whole book at once.

Other AI tools:

Sightengine: see if and how much an image is AI and what engine they used.
CopyLeaks: Chrome extension – double-check, as it is very simple and fast.
DIYBookCover: test and take the textual output for the report and use it in your prompt on, for example, Gemini to improve your cover.
WordCounter - gives more than just the word count: reading time (!), reading level (!), and many more.
Plagiarism checkers: Unfortunately I can only check 25,000 words per month with Quillbot, so I have a couple of spare ones: https://plagiarismdetector.net/ - https://www.duplichecker.com/ - https://papersowl.com/free-plagiarism-checker These are all very limited in word count, but you basically only have to do it once or twice to make sure you haven't accidentally written something that conflicts and triggers Amazon AI.

There are many others out there, but I tend to stick with the free and original ones (as in, not a white-labelled service from another engine under their own brand).

All of the above writings were improved (humanised) and corrected with the use of Quillbot. Test it if you like; it is still 100% human-written simply because I write it first in my own words and then let AI improve it.

Do you have any tools to add?

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AI: How do I use it.