I will admit that these stories were fun, but I think that comes down mainly to the creativity of the prompt. As you noted, AI fiction still needs so much human shaping and tweaking to take it from laughs to literature. I'm not panicking... yet.
Landing here to post a controversial opinion, or three.
1. Those AI written stories are very close to what I see from a lot of poets on instagram, so maybe some writers will be out of a job, but not anyone who has put any time and effort into it!
2. In my books, AI characters are so advanced that they offer us new perspectives into what it means to be alive. I don't think that sort of AI is going to be here in the real world any time soon, and if it does, it's likely none of us will notice anyway. AI writing is now included in my marketing copy, as in "An AI did not write this marketing copy for me, I did it myself. Buy my book" is one of my proposed ads.
3. My issue with AI art is not the art itself. It is the techbros who brag about undercutting real artists, and the socioeconomic situation anyone with an ounce of creativity is stuck in, mainly that the majority of us have personalities and conditions that make it hard to work a regular job with the average person anyway. There are things in the human brain that are oft connected to other things. If we had universal basic income we'd all be free to paint and write and sculpt to the end of time, and selling the work would not be such a matter of life and death as it is now, and would instead be a bonus thing we could voluntarily enter into.
I will admit that these stories were fun, but I think that comes down mainly to the creativity of the prompt. As you noted, AI fiction still needs so much human shaping and tweaking to take it from laughs to literature. I'm not panicking... yet.
“... the mayo was the diplomat.” 🤣🤣🤣 OK, besides that good laugh, you bring up some excellent points. It’s still unnerving, though.
Landing here to post a controversial opinion, or three.
1. Those AI written stories are very close to what I see from a lot of poets on instagram, so maybe some writers will be out of a job, but not anyone who has put any time and effort into it!
2. In my books, AI characters are so advanced that they offer us new perspectives into what it means to be alive. I don't think that sort of AI is going to be here in the real world any time soon, and if it does, it's likely none of us will notice anyway. AI writing is now included in my marketing copy, as in "An AI did not write this marketing copy for me, I did it myself. Buy my book" is one of my proposed ads.
3. My issue with AI art is not the art itself. It is the techbros who brag about undercutting real artists, and the socioeconomic situation anyone with an ounce of creativity is stuck in, mainly that the majority of us have personalities and conditions that make it hard to work a regular job with the average person anyway. There are things in the human brain that are oft connected to other things. If we had universal basic income we'd all be free to paint and write and sculpt to the end of time, and selling the work would not be such a matter of life and death as it is now, and would instead be a bonus thing we could voluntarily enter into.