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I feel like the biggest impact will be for authors who have an existing body of work... you can train the model on your writing and generate new text in your ow

I feel like the biggest impact will be for authors who have an existing body of work... you can train the model on your writing and generate new text in your own style. What takes days could be done in hours. I'm sure the same could be done for editors... train it on annotated text (original + corrections), use it to generate new edits.

chme 4y ago
Sure, but most authors aren't payed for their writing style, they are paid for what they say, for a unique insight, good research, or, if fictional, for a good story arc and suspense. I haven't seen purely AI written pieces that have that. And I am not sure they will with the current approach, which produces mostly bland and generic text. We would need an AI that does some actual creative thinking first. I think (hope) that AI, in the interim, will provide actual authors ways to get inspired by its random nature. Like painters might start with an ink blob and then paint over it. Or let AI fill in some gaps, like description of people or places, etc.
JohnFen 4y ago
Damn, I hadn't thought of that. I was thinking I could stay safe by just sticking with already known authors. But apparently even that won't work.
rikroots 4y ago
(Copying my comment over from a different HN ChatGPT thread I commented on this morning - are all these ChatGPT threads getting a bit ... samey?) As a writer, I'm much happier in the revision/editing stage than in the first draft stage. I have a half-finished novel that's been half-finished for the best part of 8 years now. I'm now thinking that maybe if I feed the draft into <ML-shiny-of-the-day> with suggestions for how I want the next section/chapter to develop, it could generate some draft copy for me. Possibly several different versions. After which I'm in my Happy Editing Place, shaping existing copy to something I like. Repeat and rinse! The end result would be 100% my work as the ML algorithm/brains/whatever would be generating new copy based on my existing copy and my vision and direction for the novel. And I get the final say on the results. Win-Win!

chme 4y ago

Sure, but most authors aren't payed for their writing style, they are paid for what they say, for a unique insight, good research, or, if fictional, for a good story arc and suspense. I haven't seen purely AI written pieces that have that. And I am not sure they will with the current approach, which produces mostly bland and generic text. We would need an AI that does some actual creative thinking first. I think (hope) that AI, in the interim, will provide actual authors ways to get inspired by its random nature. Like painters might start with an ink blob and then paint over it. Or let AI fill in some gaps, like description of people or places, etc.

JohnFen 4y ago

Damn, I hadn't thought of that. I was thinking I could stay safe by just sticking with already known authors. But apparently even that won't work.

rikroots 4y ago

(Copying my comment over from a different HN ChatGPT thread I commented on this morning - are all these ChatGPT threads getting a bit ... samey?) As a writer, I'm much happier in the revision/editing stage than in the first draft stage. I have a half-finished novel that's been half-finished for the best part of 8 years now. I'm now thinking that maybe if I feed the draft into <ML-shiny-of-the-day> with suggestions for how I want the next section/chapter to develop, it could generate some draft copy for me. Possibly several different versions. After which I'm in my Happy Editing Place, shaping existing copy to something I like. Repeat and rinse! The end result would be 100% my work as the ML algorithm/brains/whatever would be generating new copy based on my existing copy and my vision and direction for the novel. And I get the final say on the results. Win-Win!