I'm actually working on AI-aided writing. First off, GPT-3 is terrible at plots and all long form writing. That doesn't mean that AI/computers are going to be

I'm actually working on AI-aided writing. First off, GPT-3 is terrible at plots and all long form writing. That doesn't mean that AI/computers are going to be bad at it. There's an algorithm. Many screenwriters today write based off Aristotle's Poetics or some variation of Hero's Journey. The West Wing is brilliant and deep, but it's also written around an algorithm. We'll probably see some hybrid engines around this. Just like computers have GPUs and CPUs and RAM and HDDs. There will likely be an engine for plot, and another GPT-3 style one for "rendering" that plot. A downside is that it does have a certain "voice". I would say its natural voice is similar to 16 year olds writing fan fiction. If you don't guide it well (and most don't), the outputs will all be similar, and they will sound tacky. And so guiding will matter a lot. I see AI as possibly taking the role of scriptwriter and actor, but a human needs to take the role of a director. Most interpretations today are quite lazy and expect AI to do all the work. I think a form of creative coordination is needed. You still have to put your AI in a situation where they can be inspired. You can't just tell them to write out a full scene of a man confront his adulterous wife. You give them the saucy plotwriting from Patterson, snippets of over the top dialogue from Conan the Cimmerian, and you get some form of artwork. But if you're not a good writer in the first place, you can't actually train AI to write well. Most of the parties interested in AI writing are screenwriters. It's sort of like accountants and engineers jumping after calculators. The machine doesn't obsolete them; it allows them to do more of the thing they wanted to do, and less of the tedious stuff they didn't want to.