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.
You're right. The human touch can't be beat. AI still has a long road to travel to match a flesh-and-blood in creating characters and telling a compelling story. My hope is readers will continue to reward authors who rely on their natural talents and experience to tell a story instead of eating up assembly-line AI fiction.
It is. I don't like the idea of designing AI novel-writing apps with the not-so-subtle goal of replacing humans in the creative process of writing a novel. There's something soulless about turning storytelling into a mass-produced assembly line product.
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 think you've pointed out an underlying issue that I also have with AI-produced creative works. It is meant to marginalize real artists. Until AI has the same thoughts, emotions, and experiences as a human author, it will always produce inferior stories. But I don't think that's the end goal. The tech bros want to turn creativity into a mass-produced product like a car or smartphone. If they succeed, it will rob us all of the thrill of immersing ourselves in a story created from an author's imagination and their real blood, sweat, and tears.
What needs to happen is a positive movement that captures people's emotions and takes them away from the mindless techbros. I think 'human centred art' or 'pro-human' things could be done that put value back into human work. We'd all buy handcrafted furniture if we could afford it, so showing an emphasis on the work that goes into writing would be nice.
I want to note also that writing is one of the few jobs where it is expected that the workers complain about it. Not one positive meme about writing is made, but there are plenty of positive jokes and chatter about other arts, painting, pottery etc.
Writers need to band together, get more positive, and show the readers that human-made stories are the best.
Could even go the spiritual angle. Humans embedding their souls into stories, machines not having souls so consuming AI stories does psychic damage to people.
Might write a post about this, sure I'd lose a few people though!
You're spot on with the negative memes about writing. Some authors like to milk the "tortured artist" cliché for all it's worth. Not me. I write fiction because I enjoy storytelling. It's fun and is refreshing to my soul. If it was a chore I had to slog through, I'd find something else to do. Pushing back against these tortured writer narratives and memes and spreading a positive outlook is the right thing to do.
That's why I was so pleased to have you on as my first author guest. It's refreshing seeing someone who genuinely enjoys the art as much as I do! Lova ya bro
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.
You're right. The human touch can't be beat. AI still has a long road to travel to match a flesh-and-blood in creating characters and telling a compelling story. My hope is readers will continue to reward authors who rely on their natural talents and experience to tell a story instead of eating up assembly-line AI fiction.
“... the mayo was the diplomat.” 🤣🤣🤣 OK, besides that good laugh, you bring up some excellent points. It’s still unnerving, though.
It is. I don't like the idea of designing AI novel-writing apps with the not-so-subtle goal of replacing humans in the creative process of writing a novel. There's something soulless about turning storytelling into a mass-produced assembly line product.
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 like your marketing copy disclaimer. :-)
I think you've pointed out an underlying issue that I also have with AI-produced creative works. It is meant to marginalize real artists. Until AI has the same thoughts, emotions, and experiences as a human author, it will always produce inferior stories. But I don't think that's the end goal. The tech bros want to turn creativity into a mass-produced product like a car or smartphone. If they succeed, it will rob us all of the thrill of immersing ourselves in a story created from an author's imagination and their real blood, sweat, and tears.
What needs to happen is a positive movement that captures people's emotions and takes them away from the mindless techbros. I think 'human centred art' or 'pro-human' things could be done that put value back into human work. We'd all buy handcrafted furniture if we could afford it, so showing an emphasis on the work that goes into writing would be nice.
I want to note also that writing is one of the few jobs where it is expected that the workers complain about it. Not one positive meme about writing is made, but there are plenty of positive jokes and chatter about other arts, painting, pottery etc.
Writers need to band together, get more positive, and show the readers that human-made stories are the best.
Could even go the spiritual angle. Humans embedding their souls into stories, machines not having souls so consuming AI stories does psychic damage to people.
Might write a post about this, sure I'd lose a few people though!
You're spot on with the negative memes about writing. Some authors like to milk the "tortured artist" cliché for all it's worth. Not me. I write fiction because I enjoy storytelling. It's fun and is refreshing to my soul. If it was a chore I had to slog through, I'd find something else to do. Pushing back against these tortured writer narratives and memes and spreading a positive outlook is the right thing to do.
That's why I was so pleased to have you on as my first author guest. It's refreshing seeing someone who genuinely enjoys the art as much as I do! Lova ya bro