AI Will Never Buy My Book

I recently came across this video:

The central point is that AI does not make purchases, which leads to an economic dead end. To explain, let’s say you want to become a chef. So, you go to cooking school, learn all the techniques, and then graduate. What now? I see three options. The first is to find a job and cook. Your day would likely be enjoyable because you are doing what you love.

The second is that learning to cook turned you off (cooking was not actually your passion), but you still use your new skills to make dinner. The third is to cook for a while at a restaurant, change careers, but still use those skills to cook dinner. My point is that even though you may not use these skills professionally, you will use them to cook dinner.

Now, let’s make a pile of every cookbook, cooking textbook, cooking article, and cooking video. Then, use all of that to train an AI model. We now have a warehouse-sized computer that knows everything about cooking. What happens next? Nothing happens until someone asks, “Show me how to cook a hamburger.” Why did the computer sit there? Because it had no desire to cook; in fact, it had no desire to learn about cooking in the first place.

Well, we could build an AI-powered robot with all the cooking knowledge. What happens? Nothing happens because the robot has no desire. After all, it only follows commands. Meaning, it would wait until somebody asked it, “Cook a hamburger for me.” What if that had happened? Surprise! Nothing happens. Why? Beforehand, the person asking has to buy ingredients and have a kitchen with a frying pan so the robot can cook. Remember, the robot has no money.

Now, take yourself with all that cooking knowledge. You have a kitchen and might even cook at a restaurant. You or your manager must have purchased many ingredients beforehand. But that is not the biggest requirement. You want to cook a hamburger. Sure, you might not enjoy that task on the thousandth burger if you worked at a restaurant, but you do enjoy being paid.

AI does not want anything; instead, it is a soulless collection of microchips that processes information. Meaning, desire was never part of the program, but a few parts of our computers do have desire.

Yes, a computer virus, scam email, or malicious software certainly has a strong desire. Those “tools” want to steal your information and money or destroy reputations/computer systems. Thus, society tries its best not to have any computer-related desire.

I like to have a writing tie-in for my articles. I admit AI chat-boxes have become excellent writers. In fact, many successful books now published are, in part or in whole, AI-written. I cannot argue with this success and can see that AI technology is exponentially improving. This means that soon (if it has not already), AI will surpass my writing ability.

Well, now what? To that, I say Harry Potter. Nobody can deny that this is an excellent book, but it is unlikely that AI will ever be able to create such a work of art. Sure, I could ask AI to “generate a book about a boy who learns magic.” And AI would certainly deliver a clever and well-written story. I could even ask it an open-ended request: “generate a fictional book.” The result would also be fantastic.

The problem the above video points out is that a person has to make this request, and someone has to pay for the AI computer’s electricity. Meaning, AI is not completing the economic circle because it is not buying a book. Instead, somebody else is making a request. AI will never request itself to generate a book. An AI chatbot certainly has no desire to buy a copy of Harry Potter or sell a book that it wrote.

Like the cook who enjoys their meals, the writer learned how to write by reading books they purchased. The same could be said of a truck driver or a teacher. They do things that benefit society and themselves. AI can never complete this economic cycle.

My point is that no matter how much I wish, AI will never go to Amazon and buy my book, Interviewing Immortality. Granted, AI companies will surely scrape the contents without paying me a dime, but no AI algorithm will ever have the desire to read my book, although it is well written, and you should certainly read it.

Why? AI has no curiosity, which is a dead end that brings us back to me. I like to write. In fact, watching the video inspired this very topic. And only I had the motivation to write it. Plus, you had the motivation to read it. And this might even inspire you to buy one of my books. While it is a remote possibility, it might be due to this article. That would be success, which is what I am striving for.

How worried should I be about all this? I suppose it is fine that AI will never buy my book or anything else. I kind of like it that way.

You’re the best -Bill

April 15, 2026

Hey, book lovers, I published five. Please check them out:

Interviewing Immortality. A dramatic first-person psychological thriller that weaves a tale of intrigue, suspense, and self-confrontation.

Pushed to the Edge of Survival. A drama, romance, and science fiction story about two unlikely people surviving a shipwreck and living with the consequences.

Cable Ties. A slow-burning political thriller that reflects the realities of modern intelligence, law enforcement, department cooperation, and international politics.

Saving Immortality. Continuing in the first-person psychological thriller genre, James Kimble searches for his former captor to answer his life’s questions.

Pushed to the Edge of Existence. Just when Kim, Gabe, and Emma’s lives start returning to normal, a mysterious government organization orders them to use their telepathic abilities, and then they travel to an alien planet.

These books are available in softcover and in eBook format.