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Speaking of soiling your family name…

January 18, 2023

Prince’s Harry’s memoir sold 1.43M copies on release day. That M stands for million, in case you’re unfamiliar. Which is next to unheard of.

Even before the shiny-covered tell-all hit the shelves, scuttlebutt abounded. And that ungrateful-over-sharing-Harry sculttlebutt….boy, did that sell even more books.

If you want to catch some of that scuttlebutt and you’ve got a NYT subscription, go here.

Seemingly unrelated, yet not, we did a webinar this past week on how to use AI to write your non-fiction book. You can listen to the replay by going here if you’re curious.

The question I mean to raise right now is: can AI do what J.R. Moehringer, the ghostwriter who actually wrote the book, did?

In short, not YET.

But here’s my 6M (this time M stands for minute) take on why that’s the case.