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>I wonder if GPT-4 will be able to take over the romance novel industry. More likely carve a niche for romances made by AI.

jessaustin 6y ago
The niche will be a multitude of single-reader "filter bubbles". The AI will figure out what the reader wants, and give it to her/him as intensely as possible. Eventually the content produced for particular readers will only be roughly literate, let alone clever or stylish. Other humans might not even be able to read it, but the marketing bots won't have any trouble. One would like to think that literature in general can survive this hyper-personalization, but optimism is cowardice.
- Cro_on 6y ago
  >The AI will figure out what the reader wants, and give it to her/him as intensely as possible. Absolutely this. But the final form of this requires some input from the reader – front camera access and retina scanning presumably. It may evolve, without proper curtailing, (unidentifiable ads aside) to be a pretty powerful tool of motivation / pacification / manipulation. >Eventually the content produced for particular readers will only be roughly literate, let alone clever or stylish. Don't know about this, I have slightly more faith in people's ability of appreciation. Though I could be embarrassingly wrong. I feel (a little hyperbolic allowances, if you will) it's in the books for an Infinite Jest type of entertainment to arise, be it in kindle or netflix form. That is, a piece of entertainment so excruciatingly entertaining, that people will literally and completely drop whatever it is they were doing before (or, you know, just miss a week of work for the sake of the most intimate and powerful writing they've ever experienced) and bask in the glories of their own personal god revealing truths of the universe to them.
- libertine 6y ago
  The thing is: what you described can be fitted into a genre for itself. Not everyone, in fact I dare do say the majority, don't want to read hyper-personalized content to the point that only we can read it, most of us don't even know what we want, and sometimes that doesn't even matter. Hyper personalization isn't the end game - at least in my opinion. In fact history has shown that we valued precisely the opposite, collective experience with low enough resolution so we have room to fill the gaps ourselves. How can you relate to others what only you understand? Or we will eventually cease to be humans? I didn't understand the "optimism is cowardice" part. The true optimism is believing we will survive long enough to reach that point :P
6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
Or even more likely, carve a niche for interactive romance novels.

jessaustin 6y ago

The niche will be a multitude of single-reader "filter bubbles". The AI will figure out what the reader wants, and give it to her/him as intensely as possible. Eventually the content produced for particular readers will only be roughly literate, let alone clever or stylish. Other humans might not even be able to read it, but the marketing bots won't have any trouble. One would like to think that literature in general can survive this hyper-personalization, but optimism is cowardice.

Cro_on 6y ago
>The AI will figure out what the reader wants, and give it to her/him as intensely as possible. Absolutely this. But the final form of this requires some input from the reader – front camera access and retina scanning presumably. It may evolve, without proper curtailing, (unidentifiable ads aside) to be a pretty powerful tool of motivation / pacification / manipulation. >Eventually the content produced for particular readers will only be roughly literate, let alone clever or stylish. Don't know about this, I have slightly more faith in people's ability of appreciation. Though I could be embarrassingly wrong. I feel (a little hyperbolic allowances, if you will) it's in the books for an Infinite Jest type of entertainment to arise, be it in kindle or netflix form. That is, a piece of entertainment so excruciatingly entertaining, that people will literally and completely drop whatever it is they were doing before (or, you know, just miss a week of work for the sake of the most intimate and powerful writing they've ever experienced) and bask in the glories of their own personal god revealing truths of the universe to them.
libertine 6y ago
The thing is: what you described can be fitted into a genre for itself. Not everyone, in fact I dare do say the majority, don't want to read hyper-personalized content to the point that only we can read it, most of us don't even know what we want, and sometimes that doesn't even matter. Hyper personalization isn't the end game - at least in my opinion. In fact history has shown that we valued precisely the opposite, collective experience with low enough resolution so we have room to fill the gaps ourselves. How can you relate to others what only you understand? Or we will eventually cease to be humans? I didn't understand the "optimism is cowardice" part. The true optimism is believing we will survive long enough to reach that point :P

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago

Or even more likely, carve a niche for interactive romance novels.