The original title is 'I'm Making Thousands Using AI to Write Books', and I think that kinda says it all. Especially when you apply the obvious reading of "thousands", which turns into "nearly $2,000" in the text.<p>He says he sold 574 books (by which I think he means "copies"), or approximately 6 copies per book, at about $4 each. Given that he says he works 6-8 hours on each book, he's making less than minimum wage.<p>Clearly he's hoping to expand that with this article, but it seems clear to me that it only gets worse, not better. If he can do it, others can do it. And I suspect that most of those 574 copies were sold as "look what AI can do" rather than "I want to read that book", a novelty that will quickly wear off.<p>Maybe one of these days an AI will crank out a book with some kind of engagement. Human authors don't really know how it's done; it seems to strike them as magic, too. Popular authors know that their books will sell, but that usually has more to do with people going on their previous successes. A great many authors are turning out great material every day that just never manages to catch on, amidst the flood of crud. Automating the crud-generation process doesn't seem to benefit anybody -- not even this guy, who could earn more as a barista.