More Reflections: Authors 'R Us

I have a retired friend who wrote an illustrated history/memoir of his family, for his family, called A Son of the Queen City. (Cincinnati is the Queen City.) He broke even on his budget of a few thousand dollars (which excluded his labor.) The ease and relatively low price of such a project is a boon not just for retirees but surely the wave of the future for all of us. It’s akin to the existence of the iPhone camera making all of us photographers. Like AI makes all of us “authors,” too. Or does AI just make all of us “acquisition editors”?