While I am not a novelist, I have done considerable feature articles for magazines as well as the scripts for my audiobooks and, yes, one "real" book on photography.

Recently,I have seen news about reduced attention and AI influenced  ideas that you don't have to put in effort to publidsh something.

I'll give an example: You can now be a published author with a book, in ten minutes!
They do all the work for you. They will write the book, lay out the book, publish the book

as an EPUB, and put it on Amazon and sell it for you for $16.
I guess you apparently have to supply some kind of a big idea, like, I'd like a book

about penguins. That's it. The 10-minute book. They will produce the book for you

in 10 minutes, ready to publish and sit back and get the royalties.

Like they used to say, is there something wrong with this picture?

Wriyting is a lot of work. It took me quite a long time to finish my I Want To Podcast

book in audio, of course.

Amazing how much work you have to do!

So the idea that you could do a 10-minute book and just sit back and wait, does appeal to a certain kind of person.

I don't know who, but somebody who really hasn't been in touch with the reality of the workforce.

Here we have AI doing the work while the "writer" sleeps. 

Then there was the guy commenting in the New York Times. He's teaching a course on film making and wanted to show his students classic films. Then could then discuss lighting, set construction, how things were framed and editing.

 

He said his students cannot sit through an entire movie.They can't

watch it for an hour and a half. They get bored and check their

phones. And also a lot of them only want watch old movies with

captions because, they say, the audio just isn't as good as now

so they don't want to hear it. So they don't hear the dialogue.

They don't hear the nuances of the background music

What were they thinking that filmmaking was all about and

learning was all about?

In response to that, a person who graduated recently with an engineering degree said two guys in his class who bother to learn anything. They simply went to AI to answer questions on the tests and fill in the blanks.

All three were hired by the same engineering firm and the two guys were fired within two months because they didn't perform.They thought just getting the degree was all they needed.

I'm seeing a pattern here. The idea that somehow accomplishment and effort are not related?  You simply have to get the degree by any means and deal with the rest later?

Does this make any sense to you? I'll leave it at that for now.

This topic was covered in this podcast and includes more information about the three year college idea, proposed new Pell Grants, trade schools and more.