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I was wondering which way this would go when I saw the title. Seemed equally possible it was due to people turning in AI generated articles as it was that the p

I was wondering which way this would go when I saw the title. Seemed equally possible it was due to people turning in AI generated articles as it was that the publisher decided it didn't need submissions anymore as it would use an AI to generate the articles. My guess is that we'll see more of both.

mr_toad 4y ago
If I can ask an AI to write me a story, why would I pay a publisher?
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  AI's gonna need a competent developmental editor, and to be applied incrementally with human decisions and input in between, for at least a while longer (we'll see if it keeps progressing past that—seems likely, but one never knows) [EDIT] To be clear, it won't need those things to produce a story at all, but AI-assisted stories that have had significant human input applied will be notably better than wholly-AI ones (the kind of on-demand storytelling you're alluding to) for some time yet.
- bonsaibilly 4y ago
  Even leaving aside the fact that 90% of the slop an “AI” crapped out wouldn’t be worth reading in the first place, of what value is the culture of absolute solipsism you’re proposing? I would think we’re all rather beyond the age of asking our parents to tell us a story about a pretty unicorn and being satisfied with whatever meandering narrative they supply — is that really all you think books are? There’s no meaning the author was conveying, no value in a shared culture experiencing and interpreting the same work and building a common understanding, this can all just be effortlessly replaced by endless atomized autogenerated slop for piggies?
  - lmm 4y ago
    Plenty of human-written books are bad. There are already genres where the way to get rich seems to be to crap out a narrative that hits the right keywords (or claim that you have - who's going to check?), tick the right representation checkboxes, pay the right influencers and bot farms to make it go viral on social media, and tada, there's your bestseller. While AI-generated books are not very good at the moment, there's nothing that inherently makes them better or worse than human-written books; ultimately it's the content that counts. I've been saying for years that curation is now a bigger problem than creation. AI is only accelerating the existing trend.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
  If you can ask "an AI" to write you a story, why can't you write it yourself?

mr_toad 4y ago

If I can ask an AI to write me a story, why would I pay a publisher?

yamtaddle 4y ago
AI's gonna need a competent developmental editor, and to be applied incrementally with human decisions and input in between, for at least a while longer (we'll see if it keeps progressing past that—seems likely, but one never knows) [EDIT] To be clear, it won't need those things to produce a story at all, but AI-assisted stories that have had significant human input applied will be notably better than wholly-AI ones (the kind of on-demand storytelling you're alluding to) for some time yet.
bonsaibilly 4y ago
Even leaving aside the fact that 90% of the slop an “AI” crapped out wouldn’t be worth reading in the first place, of what value is the culture of absolute solipsism you’re proposing? I would think we’re all rather beyond the age of asking our parents to tell us a story about a pretty unicorn and being satisfied with whatever meandering narrative they supply — is that really all you think books are? There’s no meaning the author was conveying, no value in a shared culture experiencing and interpreting the same work and building a common understanding, this can all just be effortlessly replaced by endless atomized autogenerated slop for piggies?
- lmm 4y ago
  Plenty of human-written books are bad. There are already genres where the way to get rich seems to be to crap out a narrative that hits the right keywords (or claim that you have - who's going to check?), tick the right representation checkboxes, pay the right influencers and bot farms to make it go viral on social media, and tada, there's your bestseller. While AI-generated books are not very good at the moment, there's nothing that inherently makes them better or worse than human-written books; ultimately it's the content that counts. I've been saying for years that curation is now a bigger problem than creation. AI is only accelerating the existing trend.
YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
If you can ask "an AI" to write you a story, why can't you write it yourself?