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0:00You may have heard me or other AI
0:02experts out there refer to something
0:03called a rapper AI tool. Sometimes in a
0:07kind of derogatory way, but today I'm
0:09going to talk to you about what exactly
0:10is a rapper tool, why I dislike most of
0:14them, but consider a small handful to be
0:17absolutely essential for anything using
0:19AI these days. Now, if you're unfamiliar
0:23with me, my name is Jason Hamilton. I'm
0:24the nerdy novelist. I spent uh years
0:28writing 14 books. the traditional way.
0:30Then I worked at Kindle Prneur for a
0:32couple of years and now I teach authors
0:33how to use AI to write books quicker and
0:35more effectively without compromising
0:37your own creativity and ethics. So first
0:39let's talk about what a rapper tool is.
0:43Now before I get into this I want to
0:44make sure we are clear on the difference
0:46between a large language model or LLM
0:49and a tool that uses that large language
0:52model because people often get these
0:54confused. And the first thing I the
0:57analogy I like to use is that of
0:59electricity. So imagine you're in your
1:02kitchen and you've got um a variety of
1:04different appliances in your kitchen
1:06that do various things. Each of those
1:09appliances is like a different wrapper
1:11tool, a different software. However,
1:13they all run on the same thing and that
1:15is electricity. The electricity in this
1:17analogy is more like the large language
1:19model. And uh there are many types of
1:21large language models just as there are
1:23more than one type of electricity or you
1:26can even factor things in like batteries
1:28different types of batteries uh but they
1:30all have the same function of running
1:32the tool that they are being used in. So
1:34in essence, what a wrapper tool is is it
1:37is something that harnesses the power of
1:39a large language model in a specific way
1:43that is useful to that person uh or to
1:46the person that they are trying to make
1:47a rapper tool for. Now the reason that I
1:50don't particularly like most rapper
1:53tools is because most of them are not
1:56actually providing anything unique and
1:58relevant to the end user. There's no
2:01unique value proposition that makes it
2:04worthwhile. Most of them are just
2:06putting a new slap of paint onto
2:09something that we've already kind of
2:10seen before and calling it this new tool
2:13and then they focus on their marketing
2:14to try and get people in through the
2:16door when they haven't actually produced
2:18anything unique. It's just like a chat
2:20GBT knockoff or something like that.
2:22However, there are a couple a small
2:24handful of AI rapper tools that I do
2:27like. So, in the rest of this video, I'm
2:29going to go into what some of those are.
2:31Keep in mind, this is not a
2:32comprehensive list of all of the tools
2:34that I use that have AI built into them.
2:37This is mostly focused on writing tools,
2:40uh, as well as a couple editing tools.
2:42And there are many other tools that we
2:44could go into on this list. For
2:46instance, if you are a coder, you can
2:48use the same large language models that
2:50these writing tools use, but they use it
2:53in a different format, a different
2:55workflow that works for coding. We're
2:57not going to talk about coding in this
2:58particular video because I focus on
3:00writing. But you get the sense that like
3:02these large language models, they're
3:03powerful. They're they can do a lot of
3:06different things. But a wrapper tool is
3:07usually best when it takes those things
3:10and it specializes it in a specific way
3:14and provides a unique workflow, a unique
3:17value proposition proposition, and
3:19sometimes unique prompts, although
3:21that's kind of a weak way of
3:22differentiating.
3:24uh that makes the AI even more valuable
3:26than the large language models are by
3:29themselves. Okay, so let's start first
3:32uh here and talk about this first one
3:34which is another one uh which is my
3:36favorite uh which is Perplexity. And uh
3:39if you've been following the channel
3:40recently, you'll know I've talked a lot
3:41about Perplexity. It is my favorite
3:43chatbot at this moment. And that might
3:45come as a surprise for people that I am
3:47lumping this in with the rapper tools
3:50because they're thinking, aren't chat
3:51bots a little bit more simple? And the
3:53truth is chat bots are not a large
3:56language model. They are themselves a
3:59wrapper tool. And you can kind of see
4:00that here in Perplexity especially. If
4:03you go here to choose your models, we
4:05actually have multiple large language
4:07models inside of Perplexity. And you can
4:09change between them. So if I want to use
4:11Claude Sonnet 4.0, I can do that. If I
4:14want to use GPD5, I can do that, too. If
4:17I want to use Perplexity's own sonar
4:19model, then I can pick that. It all just
4:22depends on what model I want to use.
4:24It's like a different battery powering
4:26the tool, but the tool still kind of
4:29presents its own useful things about it.
4:32So, I'm going to switch this back to
4:34best here. Uh, first and foremost,
4:36Perplexity is a uh like an AI version of
4:40Google where it just goes out and
4:41searches the web for things. Uh, it's
4:44got deep research options. It's got this
4:46labs option which is like an even better
4:48version of deep research. You can select
4:50where you're getting your sources from.
4:52So you can search just the entire web.
4:54You can search academic papers, uh
4:57social interactions, and then finance
4:59records. Uh you also have a news feed
5:03area where you can not only get uh AI
5:06curated news here, but also uh some like
5:10financial news here, weather, that sort
5:12of thing. You've got spaces. This is
5:14essentially the same thing as a GPT or a
5:18project that you get in other large
5:21language models. This is just a nice way
5:24of organizing your prompts and
5:26everything in and especially if you have
5:29specific tasks that you do regularly
5:31using a chatbot. You can do those here.
5:34And that's just a tip of the iceberg
5:35when it comes to perplexity. I've made
5:37several videos about it, so you can go
5:39look through uh my past videos to see
5:42more about that. But this is one of my
5:43favorite rapper tools that offers the
5:45most unique stuff
5:47while making it so that you can actually
5:49switch between large language models. So
5:52it is technically a rapper tool in that
5:54sense. All right, the next one we're
5:55going to cover is Novelcfter. So
5:57Novelcrafter is uh came came on the
6:00scene I mean almost two years ago I
6:03think and um quickly became most
6:06people's favorite novel writing tool and
6:09I actually use it for non-fiction as
6:11well. This is um this is one of my
6:13non-fiction projects, one of my older
6:15ones. And uh there's so much you can do
6:18with Novelcfter. And what sets it apart
6:20is that it facilitates uh the prompting.
6:23So uh let's say you have 10 different
6:25characters in your story. That's
6:27actually kind of a small amount, but
6:28let's just run with it. Um but you only
6:31have two characters appearing in a
6:33specific scene. Well, wouldn't it be
6:36nice if you could have it tailor your
6:38prompt to that scene so it only pulls in
6:40the information on those two characters
6:42for that scene so you don't have all of
6:45your other characters per, you know,
6:48potentially making an appearance when
6:49they're not supposed to be. That's the
6:51sort of thing that Novel Crafter
6:52automates very well. And it's got a very
6:54extensive code that helps it to discern
6:58what should be where and all of that.
7:01And it's also incredibly versatile. Like
7:04I know of no other AI tool, AI rapper
7:09tool that is this complex. And I mean
7:14that in a good way. Like uh for some
7:15people complex is is a bad thing. You
7:18you don't have to be doing all of this
7:21complex stuff with Novelcfter. You can
7:22just kind of keep it to some simple
7:24prompts and working from there. Uh but
7:27you can do anything. You can modify any
7:29of the prompts. You can bring in your
7:31own prompts. you can have like literally
7:33hundreds of entries into your codecs.
7:36Um, so for that will account for
7:39characters and locations and anything
7:42you can think of like the uh different
7:44ways in which the uh AI should speak
7:48that kind of thing. Um, different
7:49profiles, different u sample pros
7:53options, all kinds of stuff that you can
7:55do in in novel crafter. And I don't have
7:57enough time to really get deep into all
8:00of this. I am in the near future going
8:02to be going through um several of these
8:05tools step by step so you can really see
8:07them in action, see what it takes to set
8:09up a project, etc. Uh and I don't have
8:13time to do that in this video, but
8:14suffice it to say, Novelcrafter is one
8:16of my favorite rapper tools. Um if you
8:19are the person who wants to get really
8:21granular about every part of your book,
8:24if that makes sense. So that's novel
8:26crafter. Now in slight contrast we have
8:31another one that is very similar but uh
8:33quite different in the way in the
8:35workflow and that is called pseudorite.
8:38So this is a project I have going on in
8:40pseudo right now. It is very similar in
8:43the sense that you can have like brain
8:44dump information, genre information,
8:46style, synopsis,
8:48uh lists of all your characters. So, I
8:50have like Ragnar, Thornbjorn,
8:53um, all of these different characters
8:55here in in my list of characters, and
8:58then I have some world building items. I
9:00have my outline, and it feeds on all of
9:04those things to help craft its, um, its
9:08chapters. And so, fun functionally, this
9:12this is very similar to novel crafter.
9:14It is not as complex or flexible, but
9:16for some people, that is a good thing.
9:18it it kind of like they keep their own
9:20workflows. They're trying to be more of
9:21like the Apple of AI writing rather than
9:25the Android of AI writing. Um, and you
9:29know that rubs some people the wrong
9:31way, but some some people really like
9:32that it is a little bit simpler to
9:34understand than novel crafter. Another
9:36good thing that they have going for it
9:38for them in pseudorite is the muse
9:41feature. So I will often come here to
9:43the right settings to make sure I'm
9:45using this pu this muse model. Now this
9:48is their own proprietary AI large
9:51language model. So they are a little bit
9:53unique in the sense that Sudarite is one
9:55of the only people on this list that has
9:56their own model uh being used here. And
10:01um so that's something I really like
10:04about them and it's a really good model
10:05for creative writing um more or less.
10:08Uh, so definitely one I recommend if you
10:10are kind of starting out, not sure what
10:14to do or how to work with these tools or
10:16anything like that. Um, the Muse model
10:20and the more simplistic
10:22situation that you get in Sudarite is is
10:26a pretty good thing I think. Um, so
10:28that's Pseudorite. So we've got
10:30Perplexity, Novelcrafter, Sudorite. The
10:33next one that you may have heard of is
10:34Raptorite. So rapite is u it's kind of
10:38in between pseudorite and novelcrafter.
10:40It's a little bit simpler in a good way
10:44and that means that you can kind of just
10:46get started on things uh similar to the
10:49way pseudorite works but at the same
10:52time it's also pretty flexible. There's
10:54a lot you can do with rapite. I know a
10:57lot of people inside of my community
10:59which by the way you can find a link to
11:00that down below. Uh a lot of people use
11:03rapite in their process. We just
11:06finished about a month ago, we finished
11:08a book in a month challenge and a lot of
11:10people were using Raptorite to do that
11:12to actually write a whole book in a
11:14month. Not just write it, but write and
11:16publish it in a month. Uh we got a bunch
11:18of people that did that and uh it is
11:21also very flexible in terms of what
11:23models you can use and things like that.
11:26Uh and once again, I don't have the time
11:28in this video to really walk you through
11:30that, but I am going to be producing a
11:32lot more content about that.
11:34And uh but yeah, so this is uh one of
11:37the ones that I highly recommend and
11:38there's a good thing about Raptorite and
11:40that is other than the AI words that you
11:42generate which will be built through an
11:44API service like open router using
11:47Raptorite is completely free. You do not
11:50have to pay to use Raptorite except for
11:52the a the words that you use. And if
11:55you're using free models, you could
11:57actually have something that's
11:58completely free. So that's nice. All
12:00right, those are the three main rapper
12:02tools when it comes to writing with AI.
12:04I get requests for rapper tools from all
12:07kinds of other different organizations
12:09that people want me to review them and
12:11stuff. And pretty much all of them do
12:13not provide anything extra, anything
12:15useful other than what you might get in
12:17a chatbot or a tool like uh one of these
12:21that already exists. Uh, and I know the
12:24developers of all of these and I know
12:25that they're like really good people
12:27that are in most cases are actual
12:29authors themselves trying to create a
12:32tool that is genuinely useful for
12:34authors. And so I trust that these three
12:36are the big ones and they are the three
12:37that I'm focusing on in future content
12:40that will be coming out. But there are a
12:42few others that I actually do kind of
12:44like. Uh, the first is this one. Uh,
12:46this one's called EditGPT. You can get
12:48it at editgpt.app.
12:50And this is essentially a proofreading
12:52tool. It does not do much else besides
12:55that. Uh I suppose you could probably
12:58work on it and try to get it to
12:59proofread even more effectively and do
13:02more line editing stuff, but I haven't
13:04really been able to get that out of it.
13:06I find it to be just a simple
13:08proofreading tool that's really useful.
13:10Proof reading is the simplest and
13:12easiest form of editing because it's
13:14very rulebased and so AI can understand
13:17it a little bit better. Um, and you
13:19know, proofreading a book with an actual
13:22human proofreader I have found will cost
13:24you a couple hundred dollars per book
13:26and uh it's usually not perfect. They
13:30usually miss some things and AI is
13:32actually better at not missing those
13:34things. Uh, so this is something I
13:35recommend you do is uh use a
13:38proofreading tool. And the reason I like
13:40this one in particular is because it is
13:42still a wrapper tool. It's using other
13:44large language models to do the proof
13:46reading for it, which you could just do
13:48in a chatbot, honestly. But what makes
13:50edit GPT a little bit unique is if you
13:53proofread it, it will actually go
13:55through first. So, it's got to process
13:58the text here. And you'll notice it will
14:00actually
14:03um give you recommendations using an
14:05editing system that will look familiar
14:07to you if you use Microsoft Word or
14:09something like that to approve edits
14:11made by somebody else. Uh, so it'll say,
14:14okay, we wanted to cut out the word here
14:16and add it here. So instead of it was
14:18caked heavily in rust, it was heavily
14:20caked in rust, which is just doing a
14:22little bit better job with the flow of
14:24the sentence there. So I could hit this,
14:26select it, and say accept, and it will
14:28select it. And if I scroll through this
14:30and I don't see anything that is a red
14:33flag to me, I could just go up here and
14:35accept all, and it will accept
14:37everything that uh it's highlighted for
14:40me. So I have a lot more control about
14:42what it decides to proofread or not. And
14:44that if you're doing this inside of a
14:46chatbot, you're not necessarily going to
14:48be able to easily see without studiously
14:51comparing side by side what changes were
14:54made when you asked it to proofread. And
14:55I have found that sometimes it changes
14:57things like maybe names or
15:00capitalizations of things that you
15:02didn't want it to change. And so in
15:04those cases, you would highlight those
15:06and reject it. and from there, you know,
15:10and then accept everything else. And I
15:12find that this is a really good just
15:14visual way of seeing it. And uh it helps
15:18that edit GPT is a relatively
15:19inexpensive thing. I think it costs like
15:21$10 a month uh for the basic plan, which
15:25is probably the only one you'd need. And
15:27I do actually use this one myself. You
15:29know, I get uh questions about whether I
15:32actually use all of the tools that I
15:34talk about. And to be fair, I do talk
15:38about some tools that I don't personally
15:39use, not because they're um bad or
15:43anything like they're they're good, but
15:45it's because I only use one method for
15:48myself, right? And there are many
15:50instances where you might want to be
15:52using one of these other tools instead
15:54of the way I do it, depending on who you
15:57are, what your workflow is, etc. So,
15:59just because I don't use everything here
16:02doesn't mean that they're bad. It just
16:04means that that's just not the tool for
16:06me. But as a content creator here, I do
16:09try to go through and talk about each
16:11one because I think they they do offer
16:13value for authors. But this is one that
16:16I actually do use, especially if I am
16:18reviewing content that was human written
16:20because if it was AI written, it's it's
16:23less likely to have any grammatical
16:25errors. Uh although you could probably
16:29go through and create your own prompt
16:30inside of edit GPT that highlights uh
16:33specific things the AI does a lot like
16:36um like m dashes and stuff like that and
16:39have those be edited out. Uh regardless,
16:42I do think this is a useful tool just
16:44because of the workflow and the way you
16:46visualize things. So it is one that I
16:48recommend. Uh last but not least on my
16:50list is this tool called Autocrit. Now,
16:53it's been a while since I did a video
16:54about Autocrit, but I have started using
16:57it a little bit more recently, and I
16:59have pretty much decided that it is my
17:02favorite editing tool. There are a few
17:05things that I wish it did that it does
17:06not currently do, and I'll do more
17:08videos in the future about uh what some
17:10of those things are and how to use it.
17:13Uh, but I've got some some like
17:15automations and workflows that I'm
17:17working with that kind of pair that uh
17:19Autocrit with some some AI tools. um and
17:23some other AI workflows that I have that
17:25should make it even more useful. Now,
17:28Autocrit is not really an AI tool per
17:30se, at least not at its core. It existed
17:33before AI was really a thing, but it has
17:35done some really clever integration of
17:38AI into its platform that I think is
17:40actually genuinely useful. Uh so, for
17:43instance, um the the main thing that
17:45it's known for is creating all of these
17:47reports, right? So I put in my novel
17:50here on the left side here and on the
17:53right I can run a report to see like for
17:57instance how many adverbs are there and
18:00looking through the whole document it
18:01identified 721 which it deems as too
18:04many and I'm sorry if this is a little
18:06bit small for some of you try to zoom in
18:08here and is recommending that I remove
18:11270 of them. So, I could uh click here
18:15for the detailed report on just adverbs
18:18and it will actually show me all of the
18:20different adverbs. If I select them,
18:22it'll actually show me where those are
18:24and I can basically make a judgment call
18:26on whether that should be changed or
18:29not. It's really good if if you are just
18:32looking into these manually and trying
18:34to think how can you make this a little
18:37bit better. However, there are a couple
18:39of AI tools in here that I really like.
18:41My favorite uh is the fiction analyzer
18:45here which will go chapter by chapter
18:47through this and essentially give you a
18:48developmental edit and it does a pretty
18:51decent job of it. So if I select the
18:53fiction analyzer here, what it will do
18:55is it'll actually go through and
18:57summarize the entire chapter for each
19:01chapter. It'll give me conflict, the
19:03characters, the deep point of view, the
19:04world building, the possible
19:06contradiction events, timeline anal
19:08analysis, foreshadowing events, plot
19:10thread tracking, genre analysis, hooks,
19:13and then it'll repeat that for each
19:14chapter. And then from that, it'll do
19:17this analyzer plus thing where it will
19:19actually give me the story's premise,
19:21the target genre, the target tropes,
19:23bunch of different stuff that is useful
19:25to know. Uh it'll give me more
19:27information about the world there, the
19:29characters, etc. And I find this to be a
19:31really fantastic way of uh quickly going
19:34through my text and seeing like is there
19:36anything that I can improve here. It
19:38also has a couple of other AI tools
19:40built in like there's a fiction story
19:42builder. So in this case, if we want to
19:45do uh a totally new idea, uh so we can
19:50actually go here to brainstorm our new
19:53story idea. So you can enter in whatever
19:57you've got already
19:59and uh and then you can uh you can also
20:02just autogenerate a new idea. So you can
20:04say generate ideas for all empty fields.
20:06So, what I would do is just go through
20:08these fields, fill in what you've got so
20:10far, and then probably hit this button
20:12right here to generate ideas for all
20:14empty fields, and it will go through and
20:16do that. And then you can go through and
20:19validate whatever it gives you and say,
20:21"Okay, yes, do I want this? Do I want
20:23that?" And it's a genuinely useful tool
20:26that is just kind of a side tool inside
20:28of Autocrit, but like I would almost pay
20:31for just this feature alone. The great
20:33thing about Autocrate is that there is a
20:36lifetime deal if you use my link. They
20:38don't really offer the lifetime deal
20:40publicly, so you can get that below.
20:41These are affiliate links, but as
20:43always, I don't recommend any affiliates
20:45that I don't either use myself or
20:49strongly recommend for authors. Um, in
20:52the case of like Novel Crafter versus
20:53Sudorite versus Raptorite, I basically
20:56for those I will just say pick one of
20:58them that is best for you. They're all
21:00good. They will all work. Um, but in the
21:03case of Edit GBT and Autocrit, I
21:04actually do kind of recommend uh picking
21:07these up if you want something to help
21:08you with your editing. So, that is it
21:11for my recommended rapper tools uh so
21:14far. Let me know in the comments if you
21:16have any that you would recommend. And
21:18got some other links down there that
21:19might be useful for you, including our
21:20membership where you can learn how to
21:22write 12 plus books in a year. Uh, so
21:24basically a book a month or more. Uh
21:27it's the quickest path of figuring out
21:29how to do that using one of these tools
21:31or using some other methods which I get
21:33into there. And uh I hope this is useful
21:36for you and I will see you in the next