This New AI-Writing Workflow Gives You FULL Copyright 

This is pretty much what I do, except that it's actually faster for me to do it with a keyboard unless I'm having a day where I can't type, which is about half of the days, unfortunately. As of the date this video was published, you already have "full copyright" of your AI - assisted text as long as you're making substantial changes to any AI-generated prose and you're not using the AI to infringe on someone else's IP. The dictation workflow is a useful idea but it's not any better for legal purposes than just editing the AI output with a keyboard. If you care about having to tell Amazon that you're using AI, sure, but it's got no impact on copyright protection. Also, I'm disabled, and most phones have a speech to text option in there accessibility features if you just turn it on. I used to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but now I just use my iPad's native speech to text feature, and it works just as well. You don't even have to add most punctuation. It knows everything except quotation marks.

Jason, your openness to accepting others' ideas is impressive. It shows your search for the best in using A.I. tools. Thank you!

Thank You for sharing this AI-Writing Workflow. It is a major help. I am just starting out on my writing journey.

I already incorporate reading my chapters aloud as part of my revision process, but I hadn't considered doing so as dictation in this way. I'll have to give it a try!

I have been using dictation in my books for a while now. Lily Speech is a free option that's really good. It's also customizable.

the issue the courts have with AI copyright so far is how little input is needed to create a work of art. because so much work goes into AI writing I think it would be difficult to say it was not authored. from concept to outline to editing the artist is doing a lot of work. to be honest. this looks like just a weird form of editing. you could just type the text out and make changes to it. which means you could just go through the text and make changes to it. editing. the problem is copyright laws are now broken and no longer work. ownership is breaking down. thing of all the coders you use code assistants to right 80% of the program. does that mean they don't own 80% of the program and anyone who can get access to the source code can just take it because it was written by AI. personally I suggest trying to stay away from places that require you to disclose if it was AI for now. its crazy. you have stock photosites selling AI photos they don't own because they were created using AI. you are trying to circumvent a rule that is so poorly defined that we don't know where it begins or ends.

Any insights into Screenwriting apps / Workflows like this? Really looking for that!

I will try this work flow for a day to see if I'm any better. I'll use a free auto punctuate version, then let Grammerly fix the grammer and punctuation. I'm pretty good at slicing through prose with my keyboard now though. I also don't see the difference between me editing my AI prose with my keyboard as opposed to dictating some of the text with regard to Amazon or copywrite issues though.

@TheNerdyNovelist - can you add the link to Kevin's post? I don't know which FB group you're referring to and searching isn't working. TY!

how do Credits work in sudowrite?

Cool tactic. I tried speech-to-text before, but the damn thing couldn't understand me because of my speech implement.

Glad you did the AI part.

I've used Dragon for writing and editing fiction long before AI and found it a nice way of circumventing keyboard block and making sure the prose has the right tone and flow as you're drafting. But I really don't see how dictation specifically would change the copyright status of anything over just heavy editing, which anyone serious about writing, AI assisted or no, would do anyway. If anything, I'd just make sure to remove all the common AIisms (a testament to, preternatural, steeling yourself, etc) from the final draft.

Great 👍😃

Why do you use dictating without an auto-punctuation feature? I've used the Yandex keyboard on an Android for about 4 years and there is the same feature on Windows where all commas, dots, etc. puts fully automatically. Nevertheless, dictation is a really cool lifehack, especially for dialogs.

There's a flaw in Kevin's reasoning about copyright. Making derivative works from public domain works will always be protected, but if the AI output is found to have copyrighted material in it, then rephrasing the AI output is more akin to rewriting someone else's fanfic of Interview with the Vampire. People may not ultimately be able to prove it's infringing without suing in civil court and using discovery to find evidence on your hard drive or a server, but that doesn't grant it legal protection in the same way a Dracula retelling has. I'm not saying you would get caught or that I agree that AI output is always infringing, to be clear. But it's far safer to train an AI model on public domain works plus your own work, have it create something using your input (NovelAI has ways to do this method, idk about any others rn), then dictate everything again if you're really paranoid.

Amazon Guidlines says: AI-generated content is defined by the company as “text, images or translations created by an AI-based tool”, even if substantial edits are made afterwards. AI-assisted content is classified as that created by authors and sellers themselves but where AI tools are used to “edit, refine, error-check, or otherwise improve”. I feel that based on this the dictation still falls under AI generated rather than assisted?

This is huge. Amazing may now update their definition of AI generated content.

I'm very confused. Where is the assumption that you don't have full copyright coming from? I've never heard this, and it doesn't seem to be the case anywhere I look. Very little of the prose that AI writes ends up in my actual finished book. It's mostly just a tool to get words onto the page for your first draft, and even then you're going to be heavily editing the text because the AI likes to take weird tangents or refuse to write things the way that you want them to come across.

What if you are writing a children's chapter book and you need pictures for a lot of the book.

I love your channel, but this video is kind of pointless, to be honest. The dictation aspect is irrelevant to what the video ultimately is presenting. The entire video could be summed up as "if you're REALLY worried about Amazon dinging you on AI copyright, rewrite the text it gives you." Use typing, use dictation, use whatever means you find most efficient. Presenting dictation as a brilliant new method that anyone deserves credit for is kinda silly. And Dragon dictation is also irrelevant, because it's an expensive piece of software when literally any of the multiple ways you already have on your phone, for free, work just as well. Google Docs does it and it's probably the writing tool you're using anyway. Love your channel, but this video is a real head-scratcher.

Or you can use grammarly

I'd just keep editing until ZeroGPT or some other AI-check app confirms that likely 0% of the text is AI generated.