LouDevEdits – Manuscript Evaluations and Reports

As we all know by now, AI has become a huge issue in the publishing industry. Chat gpt has begun beta-reading and editing manuscripts to varying degrees of success, but I know a lot of readers and writers who have moved on to it.

It’s free, it’s easy and it tells you exactly what to do. But it also wants you to like it, it gets confused and loses threads, giving back or incorrect advise. AI doesn’t know what it’s doing, it inputs your data and spits new data back out at you.

Generative AI is scary, but the best way to fight it in this industry is to not use it in any capacity. You don’t want your human written novel going against a dozen AI generated ones? Don’t use AI. You don’t want other authors to knock out a hundred novels a year while you’re struggling with getting one perfect? Don’t use AI.

There are so many ways to get human input, from free beta-readers that will give you their quick opinion, to paid developmental editors who will give heavily detailed, hard-worked for feedback based on years of technical experience. I fall somewhere in the middle of this, with reasonable prices, varying levels of depth, and 100s of 5* reviews to back it up.

We don’t need a computer to tell us how our human written work is working. AI isn’t our audience.