A.I. CONTENT

[PADDY]

I read with astonishment that some A.I.-generated stories were getting into print.
Can this be true?
When it first became available I tried it out of curiosity. The content was laughable and I never went back

 

[Astro Pen]

What you have to bear in mind with AI, as I mentioned elsewhere, is that it is not evolving like human skill. It is something more akin to Moore's Law. Improving in very fast cycles. You can see this clearly with graphics which were very 'obvious' quite recently but are now good enough to be convincing. Soon it will be passing the Turing test, and worse, it won't be stopping there.

I imagine action movie scriptwriting will be the first victim, and that AI screenwriting will be offshored or taken up to Canada to avoid the US unions.

Your only hopes will be that it will somehow destabilise and eat itself on a "garbage in, garbage out" basis which is unlikely, or all the governments of the world will outlaw it. Which will, frankly, never happen, or be effective if they did.
I find it personally annoying that someone asked me if I 'used AI' for my book cover? No, I actually drew that image 20 years ago using graphics and textures in Povray. But I can see why they would think that today.

 

[ColGray]

It's def better than it was 2 years ago--noticeably better. But it's also derivative and grows by consuming content and litigation hasn't caught up to it yet (but the engines are running and it's hard to conceive of a world in which "fair use" means, "Freely train your AI on my content".)

I'm less concerned about AI outright replacing writers (in whatever area) because of
a) The growth model (i.e. consuming content with context of great/good/bad/style/etc.)
b) AI poison pills (already exist for image creators)
c) Derivation can have moments, but rarely connects in a sustainable way or at levels equal to the original (See: Music and every copycat band that pops up when some new sounds connects with a broad audience. See: Marvel and the diminishing returns as they rehash, retell or reskin the same stories)
d) Modern audiences crave connection to the creator and AI cannot deliver that connection. Social media gives audiences a sense of instant faux-relationship engagement and maybe an AI could aspire to that, but the ability to chat is an entirely different skill set from, "Generate a Great 90 page near modern science fiction action movie with a muscled male lead and female anti-heroine in the style of James Cameron".

My guess is that, within the next decade, we see authors with a large body of work use AI to fill in scenes between pillars, create outlines or replace the "and Jonny Author" bits -- as in, James Patterson --and Jonny Author.