Will Books Be Enhanced By Steroids?

 

 

The level of the book industry’s use of AI in editing, acquisitions, marketing, cover design, advertising, social media, and all facets of production-to-market is not exactly known. But one can assume there is some use of it and such use will grow and even become mainstreamed. 

 

Will it be used to completely replace writers? Not completely, not in this immediate 20-year generation. But AI is getting faster, smarter, and more acceptable to the public. 

 

Will it be used as a co-pilot for authors to workshop passages, scenes, settings, and characters?  One can only hope not — but it is inevitable that authors will increasingly share their creative experience with a machine. Writers will become editors — rejecting or accepting what a computer creates or revises. Authors will have the final say and maybe make a few refinements to AI output, but they will no longer be the sole creator nor will their work have a soul.

 

Society is becoming less human by the day. Hate is in the air in a divided America. Machines are taking over all aspects of our life. And we are entertained by barbary, like Ultimate Fighting Championships. We will bet on anything, without concern for how the betting may manipulate the results of real life beyond sports.

 

Here is another example of a declining America:

 

The Enhanced Games, billed as the Olympics On Steroids, took place this holiday weekend in Las Vegas. Dozens of elite athletes were invited to win prize money in a contest that encourages the use of substances most pro leagues have banned. It is like a Gotham

Villain Showdown between all of Batman’s arch enemies, only people are rooting for the bad guys to beat the volunteer crime-fighting hero.

 

These games are nothing to celebrate but they are another benchmark in how low society has gone, with no clear bottom in sight. The depth of human depravity remains to be seen.

 

The drugs these athletes use in the games must be legal, and approved by the Federal Drug Administration. Everyday cheat drugs, such as testosterone, Adderall, and human growth hormone, which are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, are not only used here, but they're encouraged for attendees to use.

 

We should not sanction such games. We want society to protect us from ourselves. Are there no limits to where we go to make a buck or be entertained?

 

What is next: Who can rape the most women in 72 hours? Can we legalize rioting for a day? Who can take the most punches until they are knocked into a coma? 

 

Shall we bring back Gladiator, where prisoners fight to the death? Wouldn’t Survivor get higher ratings if it were turned into a real Hunger Games?

 

By you watching Survivor to the death, you are saying life means nothing, that death entertains you, that the economy is so messed up that people would risk death and be rewarded for killing. You encourage others to kill senselessly by watching or even allowing for it to happen. Or so that’s my own belief. I am sure others would underwrite and monetize Survivor to the Death if all legal hurdles could be cleared.

 

So, wonder no more about limits to the use of AI in the creation of books. In a nation that pushes its limits to the lowest form, AI-created books will get sucked into that vortex because of three simple reasons:

 

* One can do it, so they will

* It is legal 

* It can make money

 

So, dear Americans, unless we each take a stand— politically, legal, socially, or financially— we will get things like The Enhanced Games and AI-crafted books. 

 

We are on a trajectory for self-destruction. 

 

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This award-winning blog has generated over 6,500,000 page views. With 5,600+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2026.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

 

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