How NOT to Write a Book Using AI in the Age of AI

During the promotion of my book, I immediately started encountering comments like, “This is just more AI-generated bullshit.” It’s not that these reactions upset me or that I feel a desperate need to defend myself — I actually don’t mind them. In fact, I completely understand them.

Why do I understand these reactions?

Because I know how much content on the internet truly is empty, AI-generated garbage. Personally, as an author and simply as a human being, it frustrates me to see how much of it is out there. Yes, I knew that by publishing a book electronically, I was taking the risk of having to constantly defend it against this assumption.

However, I only need to defend it to those who haven’t read it. Anyone who actually reads the book will understand that AI couldn’t have come up with this — and frankly, neither could anyone else.

What do I mean by that?

This book is unique. I am a passionate reader of non-fiction, so I consider myself someone who knows what a book should look like to be engaging. And that is exactly how I wrote it: to be something I would enjoy reading myself, and to contain valuable information for the specific audience it was written for — women with ADHD.

AI as a Tool

In this day and age, creating any electronic content without using AI is professional suicide. However:

1. Most people don’t know how AI works or how bad it is without the correct input information (not just meant as a prompt).

Anyone who has tried to use AI as a tool without clearly defining the output knows this pain. For example, if you don’t write the article yourself and simply ask AI to cover a topic without specifying exactly what information it should contain, you will get absolute bullshit that will disgust you after the first read. You certainly wouldn’t use it if you intended to put your name on it.

If you’ve ever tried it, you know exactly what kind of output you get: bad output.

2. I know there are things AI is simply better at.

I am absolutely certain that I would not have been able to write the book in its current form without AI. I wouldn’t have been able to go through 186 books on ADHD on my own in less than six months. I wouldn’t have been able to read 400 studies and identify the most crucial findings and facts.

Does that mean I let AI create the book I wrote with my own hands? Not a chance.

It is excellent for processing massive amounts of data; in that regard, it is completely unique.

3. I understand that AI is a tool, but humanity is humanity.

Everyone who reads my book will understand what I am aiming for. I don’t just provide dry information; I deepen the understanding of the human essence. In the book itself, you will find the distinction between a “biomechanical machine” and a “soul.” To think that a person who wrote a book on this topic would create it using AI is misguided. I wouldn’t have reached those depths of information.

On the other hand, I know what kind of information usually appears in books about ADHD, and I know that AI could actually manage to write some of those. But not mine.

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That is also why, fully aware of this fact, I created “evidence material,” which you can see in the following photographs.

For example, a photo of my handwritten notes.

…which, after finishing the book, I threw into the air in celebration.

So, upon closer inspection, anyone can examine what is actually written on them.

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But did I use AI during the creation process?
Yes. For example, for the translation. I speak English excellently, but even so, I wouldn’t have been able to translate a full 311-page book from the original Czech into English — and release it myself within a matter of weeks — without it.

Here is the original.

The first edition of my book in my native language — Czech.

And you can find the translated version here:
https://thespot.icu/a-red-hood-the-secret-origin-of-fairy-tales-about-adhd-women

If you aren’t using AI, you are depriving yourself of the capabilities this tool offers you. However, if you use it blindly, relying solely on its machine capacity, you are that much less of a human.

And I feel like a human.
I dare say I understand the difference between a biomechanical machine using logic and a human being. After all, I wrote a book about it.

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PS: This article, like every other I publish, has its original version in my native Czech language. Only thanks to Ai can I easily ensure that my thoughts can be read by millions of people — no one would search for them in Czech. I am grateful for the era of humanity in which I live and it is up to each of us how we will “support and create” this age.