Is AI/ChatGPT the End of Creative Writing?

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It seems like everywhere we turn these days, people are talking how AI and ChatGPT are going to disrupt nearly every industry across the global economy - including creative writing and book publishing. In this video, I talk about the question on everyone’s mind: Is AI the end of creative writing as we know it? Watch for my perspective on this tricky topic, and check back next week for the second video in this two-part series on the intersection of and ChatGPT and book publishing.
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@frostfang7670 Год назад

I don’t think it’ll replace us. It still writes a lot of gibberish sometimes and you have to input things in order for it to write something out and writes stuff that feels artificially made. AI can’t think outside the box it can only work within the parameters it’s given. Perhaps it can help people with writers block maybe giving them ideas. It reminds me a lot of the episode of Family Guy when Brian takes adderall and comes up with a fantasy world overnight and brings it to show off to George RR Martin and George remarks that it’s just regurgitated generic space fantasy stuff with no inspiration behind it. That’s what AI is

@remus4283 Год назад

I can envision publishers feeding it metadata based on the most successful novels of each genre, so that the AI can pick up on patterns invisible to human analysis. It could then use this data to sort through the "slush pile" and predict bestsellers.

@panayotnikolov8961 Год назад

The condition AI is in right now is the worst it will ever be, in 10 to 20 years, it will be able to do everything better than any human. Furthermore, you're talking like this because you grew up without AI, what is going to happen with the next generations that will be brought up with it? Every following generation grows dumber and less motivated, now imagine competing against an oversaturated market filled with AI. People do not put in perspective how fast this technology is going to evolve, this is not the end of creative writing, it's the end of being human period.

@frostfang7670 Год назад

@@panayotnikolov8961 you must be very great at parties. You’re also thinking about this worse case scenario and if there isn’t a point AI computing hits a roadblock or point it can’t progress from (it can happen). I admit I am very wary of AI and don’t like the ramifications and if I had my way I’d treat it like nuclear weapons and make sure we have every restriction in the book. But unfortunately the way the world is right now where nations are competing for the next big thing (to get a head on another nation) putting caps on AI would just allow another nation to become more technologically ahead of us. I don’t have an exact answer but right now we can’t exactly predict what happens.

@zedxx Год назад

I'm too egoistic to let a robot write for me even a rough draft. However hard writing can be, I want to do it myself.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

That's what it means to be an artist, my friend

@supermolerrr2689 День назад

Pfft, nobody wrote in history for money anyways. Before Capitalism, people wrote to advance their social status, receive gifts, defend themselves, tell a story, prove a thought or point of view, build a community or build trust/friendship between themselves or others. People have only been writing for purely money-oriented, capitalistic reasons for the last 130 years. I can do improvised, oratory storytelling. Not everyone can do that but traditionally that is what a storyteller can do. People have done stuff like that long before writing even existed, it's called oral storytelling/traditions. We invented writing to prevent our stories/traditions from death from what I recall reading about. If an oral traditions keeper died from a natural disaster or murder or war then that knowledge is gone, period. Writing stuff on stone or any surface area was invented to prevent such knowledge from being lost forever.

@Axxman300 Год назад

Where AI will have a big initial impact is editing. Not only can it clean up your entire manuscript in minutes, AI can also offer revision suggestions. While it will be a while before AI can point out plot-holes, and places where your story is dragging, AI can compare your manuscript with existing books, and works of literature going all the way back to help you with originality, plot issues, and even comp-titles. The editing software/app companies have already added AI features to their systems. I'm seeing literary agents banning AI-generated query letters, and that's a good thing.

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

What happens when it encounters something that is strictly a matter of opinion?

@Axxman300 Год назад

@@frankwalton7323 Same thing that would happen with a human editor. You defend your narrative choice, maybe rewrite to see how the proposed change will work, but in the end (unless you're defending a real weak-spot) it's your call. I already have to double-check editing recommendations with the software I use as it doesn't recognize dialog, and wants to correct my character's bad grammer. Pro-Writing Aid has a score, and dialog keeps me from landing 100%. Drive me nuts. Hoping AI will fix this.

@mikecossaboom5550 Год назад

Here’s a quick anecdote to human writing being greater than AI writing. At one point in time, Tampa was the largest producers of cigars. The invention of a machine to roll cigars instead of human labor was seen as a boon the industry. The city produced more cigars than ever before. But a funny thing happened. The allure and appeal to smoking cigars faded at the exact same time as the machine rolled cigars. The thought was that it was the hand-rolled cigars that was appealing to the buyer, more so than the cigar itself. ***** Fast forward to AI writing. When we know it’s written by AI, we take it for granted, we even skim the words or outright ignore the results. When it’s written by a human, it’s not a creation of the collective but by the individual which give the words an intimate power that AI will never be able to achieve. Keep writing!

@lanceevans1689 Год назад

I don’t think the average consumer will know or care. If not today, at a certain point down the road. And for those that care what do we do? Label human written books as being just that, “written by a human”? Oh how strange is that gonna be?

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

Thanks for your comforting words, hope you're right.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

The real problem is a consumerist economy. Art was already enslaved by market forces, now people just blow off the idea that the only kind of art there is will not be valuable because we have content generators that can flood the economy with weak facsimiles. It's no wonder corporate entities are so engrossed by this technology, a steady output of unsophisticated garbage is their bread and butter.

@vandini8185 Год назад

So well spoken! Brilliant.

@seregrian5675 Год назад

Yes. Because every critic, troll and griefer will accuse new writers of using AI - and new writers will be run off. And before you say it's not capable of complex writing, I say "for now..."

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

Yep and the " product" will be just as sterile as today's movies and music.

@ocinrime Год назад

Chatgpt is amazing for research. If you're writing a book set in the 1980s and you want to know songs, books, names, and politics of the time, just ask. Want to know about a city, aviation, or a critter, just ask. It's better than google.

@richardbishop3620 Год назад

I can see Chapgpt overwhelming editors and agents with mediocre stories

@gailcbull Год назад

This is already happening. I read an article about a sci-fi story competition where almost half of the submissions had to be disqualified because they were created by ChatGPT. The slush pile is about to double in size, and editors' and agents' jobs are about to get much more difficult.

@noneofyourbusiness7965 Год назад

I'm unconcerned at this time because the AI is incapable of creating any novel length writing of great complexity. The authors of children's books definitely have something to be worried about though, it's already started tearing into the market on their end.

@hiyalanguages Год назад

I bet they said the same when TV first emerged... that one would care about books anymore. Oh well, there are those who still care!

@grabble7605 Год назад

Also "the AI" just literally does not exist. There's that too.

@gothicwriter9897 Год назад

This fear reminds me of the evolution of computer chess in the 1980s. A British chess player, David Levy (great chess player but not the best in the World at the time) took part in a 3 game chess challenge with a supercomputer, I believe it was a Kray. He won easily by making some irrelevant moves the computer did not understand - it had been programmed with many of the top matches covering all the best openings etc. But... within a few years computers evolved and were beating the best in the World at chess. When I write (as a pantser) I combine every story I have ever read and heard through film, TV, poetry, books, plays, songs and overhearing two people talking in a cafe or on a bus, and some events I have experienced in my life. My brain will make connections the computer couldn't possibly make. So a computer can never produce the stories my brain can produce. But in a few years AI will be able to write powerful novels. It can write so fast, probability suggests some will be good stories and sell loads. Think about it. What gets published? A great story that sells. If AI can write a novel in 20 seconds, in a day it can write 4,320 novels. All one needs is a reading sweatshop and the best can get a second reading maybe by agents. As time goes by AI will get better and it is programmable. 'Alexa AI write me a novel similar to "Gone with the Wind" set in the Second World War in France.' Frightening. The reader need never know it was written by AI unless the laws change.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

Oh yeah, and how many Chess competitions have non-human participants today? The laws don't need to change, they need to stay the same, preserving the rights of actual artists and not algorithmic drivel.

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

The difference is there is money to be made in publishing as opposed to chess. Writers will gradually be phased out similar to actual vs AI voice over narration you won't be able to tall the difference.

@joevaldez6457 6 месяцев назад

A friend gave me a demo and sold me on Chat GPT 4.0. It's a writing assistant, not a writer. I think its greatest application is for powering through a 1st draft. "Describe an old gas station in Northern Illinois in winter at midnight in the style of Mike Royko." The results are NOT final draft quality, but they're not trash. And there is an art to it. The more creative the prompt, the more creative the results. _Very_ applicable for those working day jobs who have an hour a day to write.

@Anixsoftware Год назад

Thank you for making this video, Alyssa!

@jerrel.writes Год назад

ChatGPT is part of my writing process now. Obviously, I'm not telling it to write anything for me. As writers we know how bad it is at that, and as Alyssa said, it will never hit the same as a human writing it. But ChatGPT has been vital for speeding up research. Its ability to fetch information that I need to keep the words going is incredible. It's especially important since the sources I'm researching are not as publicly accessible (pre-colonial Philippine mythology and history). It has been able to fetch me historical facts, artifacts, and practices in seconds. In my opinion, the conversation of AI takeover drowns out the benefits it could bring writers. At its best, it could minimize the mental labor so we can keep focus on our main goal: writing.

@myrosierheart Год назад

THIS. I write science-fiction and dystopia and chatGPT helps to find answers to some specific points of physics and science. It makes research easier and more precise. We need to find a middle ground where AI can be a useful TOOL, and not something which replaces our creativity.

@jerrel.writes Год назад

@@myrosierheart that’s awesome!!! The beauty is that we’re novelists and not scientific researchers, so the AI just needs to give us enough to inspire our fiction.

@ulla7378 Год назад

Are you sure you are getting genuine results? It is very happy to produce utter bullshit especially on topics that there are not many sources available. My colleague tested it few weeks ago by asking it to tell about certain cultural clothing items. The answer was total fabrication. And it will also fabricate sources lists when asked.

@venusianmoonchild Год назад

That is so comforting thank you :)

@bhsprinkle Год назад

Think true creativity comes from the heart, mind, and soul of actual people.

@anaatanaskovic4814 Год назад

New narrative techniques exist but telling a completely new story - no. Telling it a new way .- yes, but there is nothing new under the Sun. I agree with the rest you said - AI will always lack individual human experience.

@csb78nm Год назад

An interesting concept for the sci-fi genre (and one that's been done before), does an AI have a soul, can it comprehend the human condition? The difference between the ground that Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke and others paved, is that the scientific fictional imagining of that era is slowly catching up to the reality of emerging science. Perhaps we should step back and wonder not if we can do it, but if we should do it.

@samfowler2073 Год назад

It can't create new things, it can remix things, very well and maybe one day AGI will surpass us. But I think rather than making novels it will go for the nuclear launch codes... in which case they will be more pressing things to worry about.

@raynichol8959 Год назад

I am 78 and I am writing my memoir. I’m not a professional writer. I have been using GTP4 very successfully. My method in writing is to type my version first. Then it’s important to learn how to create the correct prompts in GTP that end with a colon : Otherwise, you’ll get mediocre text. The program does a great job of expanding and flushing out your content. Then I proceed to edit the GTP generated content, humanizing it with my style of writing. So ultimately, I use AI as a tool, not as an end product. Just like every tool we use in life, they are designed to make us more proficient. But using tools doesn’t prevent us from creating our own personal art or style. There are many instances in history where new inventions threatened existing systems. Almost all of them actually didn’t hurt at all. In many cases they actually helped. One example is the famous renaissance Dutch artist Vermeer, who used the camera obscura to trace his subjects onto vellum. Then transferring the optically created image onto his canvas as a visually accurate perspective drawing. So is his excellently executed oil painting manipulated and mediocre? The beauty of his art is in his execution of the pigments. Not the mechanical tracing from the back of the camera box. When properly used AI can be a great tool helping to create many forms of writing. I am happy using AI. It’s like having R2D2 as an English teacher at your fingertips. What you get out of GPT depends entirely on what you write in your prompts. The more specific, you are the better the results. Open Assistant is a better AI software than chatGTP3.5, the free version, or GTP4 which is a monthly subscription that comes with a more robust engine.

@sophiestj Год назад

I'm a translator and while automated translation has been out for more than a decade already, it still cannot be entrusted with a document to translate without any human intervention, may it be at least a revisor to make sure the translation that was produced is actually correct and natural (rather than too closely tied to the original text). It's also very obvious that it can only produce what it has been fed and does not come up with creative solutions, nor can it interpret the underlying meaning of the text, which leads to mistakes. So even more than a decade later, there is still a lot of work for translators, but the nature of the work has changed, as rarely do we translate from scratch without any automated tool providing a first draft or suggesting solutions used before, but the human touch is still definitly necessary to ensure a quality translation in the end. I would say the writing fieldis likely to follow a similar path. AI won't replace writers in the end, but it will likely change the way they work.

@MrDanroche Год назад

I’ll be honest, I’ve thought about this a lot. And you hit one major point in that the art of writing in itself is the reason most of us do it. I don’t think there would be much enjoyment or reward in typing in a couple plot points and having a machine write the book. I can see some publishers taking advantage of it by having a machine spit out some content for a hot-in-the-moment topic. But that’s about it. Just business, otherwise it’s all about the art

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

The profit motive and corporate interests will dominate the " industry" Similar to what is being referred to as music today.

@CosmicPen Год назад

ChatGPT is not AI but it's a good tool for research.

@rjpeters8674 Год назад

Based in Moores Law, AI will have bonded with many creative human minds in the next three years. This renders the myth that AI cannot outperform human creativity moot. Those of us who give ourselves to the melding - for lack of a better word - will give AI everything it needs to know about creativity. But I like you, Alyssa. Thank you for your help and encouragement. That's rare. You stay safe and warm. RJ Peters

@xensonar9652 Год назад

In a world of AI art, people will pine for authenticity. There will always be a market for the genuine.

@sidmarx7276 Год назад

Yes, and publishers will censor it. Originality is too "risky."

@xensonar9652 Год назад

@@sidmarx7276 I doubt that.

@eruvandib.676 Год назад

I totally agree. Sure, there are those who will be content to churn out generic stories using AI and those who will be content to read them. But for a lot of writers, the ACT OF WRITING is half the fun. As a writer, I WANT to spend the time sitting down and discovering my characters and worlds, and challenging myself by figuring out how to put them into words to share with others. Plugging a prompt into an AI would take away the fun and fulfillment I get from THE PROCESS. As a reader, I want to connect with other HUMAN minds. Half the point of reading is to see through the eyes of another person. Even if the main character of a story isn't human, you're still touching the author's mind in some way. In the end, I see the AI revolution as very similar to the industrial revolution. It will change and streamline some things. I certainly see a lot of business people using AI to save time writing sales copy and the like, and I honestly don't have a problem with that. But humans are inherently creative. The act of creating gives us fulfillment and when it comes to creative writing, we aren't going to give that up. Just as the industrial revolution shook things up but didn't stop people from CHOOSING to make things by hand, and CHOOSING to seek things out that are handmade, the AI revolution will shake things up, but it's not going to stop humans from doing what we love doing.

@AlyssaMatesic Год назад

Exactly! Thanks for your comment!

@sonic31century1 Год назад

It isn't a matter of writers enjoying writing, it is matter of a computer program producing an endless stream of content very quickly that could take the place of writer's novels. Maybe a writer can only write one novel a year and an AI or ChatGPT can produce 100s which could drown the market for new books.

@michaelpaysden4614 Год назад

I just wonder how much "originality" actually matters outside of "literary novels" (whatever that term may really mean). In my own experience, I find that people often yearn for "more of the same", whichever genre they're currently devouring. I've been guilty of it myself. This is particularly evident in the field of horror and the supernatural, but is probably valid for most genres. After all, generally-speaking, it is precisely the limits and boundaries of a genre that help define it. So any sophisticated AI systems should have no "problem" drawing on what has gone before... in fact, it seems to be par for the course. Or am I wrong?

@hiyalanguages Год назад

My problem is exactly the opposite. I want novelty - It's called novel for a reason. However, it's a trait of our anxious self, which anyone can be guilty of, going back to what we know.

@grabble7605 Год назад

@@hiyalanguages "I want novelty - It's called novel for a reason." And that reason isn't what you've suggested.

@hiyalanguages Год назад

@@grabble7605 The literal meaning isn't the meaning. I like novels with novelty. I don't expect to have to write "pun intended" at the end of every use of irony or joke. Otherwise I'd be doing that for half of my sentences. Anyway, I am just expanding on someone else's thoughts. They said they like the comfort of reading something similar to other works and I don't. I don't suppose ORIGINALITY truly exists in 2023, what exists is someone's original way to put something out there... as long as it is original. ME, that's ME... I get bored of more of the same... Again, no matter how much I strive, I can't be 100% original either. My opinion is not a statement that resonates with everyone, and I don't see why it should. I hope I made my opinion clearer now.

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

Nope, you're right, speaking my mind exactly.

@spykemxd Год назад

It's been great for editing my second draft, but none else.

@brockb3692 Год назад

ChatGPT is devastating to writing and the humanities.

@Wierdgirl5834 Год назад

Thanks for addressing this hot button issue. Can you perhaps do a follow-up discussing how you think AI will specifically impact the traditional and self-publishing industries? Do you think human authors will be competing with AI-written works? Do you think traditional publishing will only publish human voices? What are your predictions?

@andyclark3530 Год назад

Several things I've noticed. I write short stories, and many magazines are saying they will not accept AI submissions. That may change, but there have been cases of magazines being overwhelmed by submissions. I've also heard that AI isn't great at taking directions. I know an author that experimented with it, and the writing was ok, but when she suggested changes, the AI ignored her. I had a similar experience attempting to get an AI art program to generate images of the non-human residence of my fantasy world. All of this may change over time. In my day job I work in IT, and I've had an eye on AI for 30 years, and for 30 years we've been a couple of years away from it making quite a few disciplines obsolete. Maybe we're there now, and it certainly makes sense to keep an eye on it, but don't be so sure the roof is caving in.

@sonic31century1 Год назад

As long as those novels are required to have some kind of warning that they were produced by AI/ChatGPT, creative writing is not over. No one wants to read and enjoy a novel and later find out it was produced by AI/ChatGPT.

@grabble7605 Год назад

"No one wants to read and enjoy a novel..." Everyone who reads novels wants to do that, actually. You'll notice I clipped the rest of your line. That's because it's nonsense. Realistically, if a novel has been enjoyed, people won't care that it was produced by a program any more than they'd care it was produced by Brian Herbert. And "AI/ChatGPT" is a wrong phrase as those aren't the same or interchangeable things.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

@@grabble7605 Most people don't like being lied to, maybe you're the exception

@lanceevans1689 Год назад

And nobody wants to eat pesticides, or wear clothes produced in sweat shops, and....yet they do. Enjoying a book written by a computer, an individual, or a committee, seems like a minor life infraction by comparison to most things humans do every day

@Redskirt Год назад

As an artist and a writer, one of the things I've noticed is that everything I create has an indefinable energy of me in it. I'm sure all creatives are like this, it can't be helped. Does AI have that same sort of signature? I'd be interested to know.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

Style and its evolution are going to be big indicators in the future of who is using AI as a crutch, and who isn't

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

good point, I'm not so sure

@imadeyoureadthis1 Год назад

Chatgpt requires more training in order to be able to manipulate human emotions. Its biggest obstacle will be our knowledge of what it is that generates a text. It can simulate a connection with a human but it doesn't understand it and its subconscious contexts. It can produce satisfactory material up to a certain point. Things haven't changed much. It's just another tool at my disposal. I used paragraphs it has produced but they either need editing or they disrupt my workflow by incorporating alien material in the way that it is formed. It's accompanied by negatives that i am not yet able to control, plus i have to translate from my native language which adds more layers to my frustration.

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

Formulaic tunes and lyrics took over and ruined the art of music This will be similar in my opinion.

@gailcbull Год назад

I worry more about the risks of putting my work online. ChatGPT can only regurgitate what is inputted into it, but where is this information coming from? If I post a poem I've written on social media, can it use that? Can it scrape information from published e-books without the author's permission? Where is the legal dividing line from where it can draw "input" from? What are the risks of publishing in an electronic format if my work can be legally plagiarized?

@tommylewis2792 Год назад

Hey thanks, I'm really glad you're addressing this. The rapid development of AI is a very important topic - for writing and many other areas; it concerns me deeply. I have no definitive answers, though I do have two points: (1) Generative AI-writing is rooted in a probabilistic model, not a conscious experience. There is no subjective feeling or lived interpretation of the world from which its words stem. It is up to us, the human consumers and producers of art, to make this distinction meaningful. (2) Novels enable human connectivity to span time and space. An AI written novel (whatever that actually means) does not provide the reader a direct relationship to the course of human thought. This is a key thing literature brings to the table - a direct connection to the mind of another. Another being who themselves are having or have had an experience. So...what will it be like to read an AI novel 10, 30, 70 years after it was published? Maybe it's technically sound, maybe it's plot is excellent. Maybe it has better characterization than half the published authors. But the GPT model that wrote it did not live through its era's influence on the human mind. Was not shaped by societal friction, of love and loneliness, of the city in which it labored in doubt over a never-ending manuscript. No, if the future feels anything from the AI novels of the 2020s, the feeling will be invoked in mimicry. Emotion generated from a simulacrum of authenticity. The reader might be entertained or even slightly deepened in their empathy, but human connectivity will be absent. It will be a consumption of hollowed out literature.

@mijmijrm Год назад

will cars be the end of walking? The part of Creative Writing that is a person's personal act of creation can't be substituted by passing it on to automation.

@AlyssaMatesic Год назад

Great analogy!

@marycooney2194 Год назад

WOW a 60,000 word novel in 20 seconds. Would it be noticeable to agents and publishers that it was AI produced?

@Onasaki Год назад

I don't particularly think it's going to 'take over writing' like everyone thinks. To me, it's like a the prototype program to a Star Trek Holodeck. "Computer, create a scene where two people are arguing over dinner." Combine that with the Volume most movie and TV producing companies are using for their sets, and we could have a functional holodeck in about a few years. Ultimately, though, I feel like there will be some large uptick in really bad novels written by the ChatGPT that people are going to try to sell, but it'll probably peter out as time goes on. Or become like, a niche thing, unless it becomes the holodeck I believe it can be. I've only played with the free version of ChatGPT though. It can create some cool things through just that, but due to the way it's programmed, it cannot go against it's parameters of being 'offensive' which is vaguely defined to make everything it can actually write have to be wholesome and sweet. XD I've tried ask it to write me a dark plot, but it says no. Kinda like the Three Laws of Robotics. That being said, I feel like it could actually function as a good tool for editing, at least, early on. But not writing full manuscripts to sell, like people are trying to do. Take what it makes for you, and implement it how you like. The ideas can be worth it.

@elaynegriffith Год назад

I’ve been using AI like Grammarly for years already. Right now, I use GPT for brainstorming, marketing, & breaking through blocks. It’s a useful assistant. However, AI will get better & better, & perhaps in a few years you could feed it your already written books & it could finish a series or book for you. That’s entirely a reality.

@aWildJellieAppeared Год назад

I have been concerned whether AI would make human writing redundant but feeling a bit more reassured after watching this 😊 AI is perhaps more of a tool to help with creativity but not a replacement

@mageprometheus Год назад

Thanks for this series of videos. I was a software developer for 35 years and like what AI brings to code development. No emotion is required. It will also be great for some prescriptive genres of music, but like all art, the top songwriters and musicians are safe for a while yet. I think that once we have AGI things will change drastically. Machines with higher levels of intelligence than humans, quite possibly able to understand what triggers emotions, how emotions change human perception of reality, and our thought process. By then it might give new authors a run for their money, although great books come from what the author puts of themselves into the work. Until we have fully intelligent androids that can experience the world as we do, there will be a place for human authors.

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

and, hopefully, human beings

@awfawf4546 9 месяцев назад

To the extent that it destroys creative writing, it does so only in a business model context, as movie studios can easily use ChatGpt to write an original plot, then pay one writer to revise that plot, rather than having to pay a writer to come up with an original plot and write the script (they can pay less per script). Newspapers could do the same thing. The AIs impact creative writing as a BUSINESS, not creative writing itself; journalists and writers in the entertainment industry will be most at risk as their ideas and stories can be stolen and republished without payment, as the ideas and stories are processed as "data" by the AI machines.

@r.o.8060 Год назад

So I had a professional editor look at my manuscript, I have been working on the comments for months now. What comes next? My manuscript was reviewed by one beta reader and a pro editor, that’s it, do you think that’s enough? Should I get a second opinion? Or should I start querying now? The process is expensive if I keep hiring professional help. Thanks PS: where I live there aren’t any groups for aspiring authors or writers.

@kaleeshsynth9994 Год назад

Ai dose help with writers blcok and can help organize my ideas Into better words but like it can't do complex long form. Writing that well.

@writenowdream3882 Год назад

From what I've read, book professionals and even teachers can tell when someone has used AI. And as AI gets more sophisticated, so will the means to detect it.

@BoneistJ Год назад

Anyone who thinks this hasn't actually tried the current AIs out.

@vandaken3612 9 месяцев назад

AI can be a useful tool to enhance a writer's abilities. While I don't necessarily agree with using it to generate ideas or stories, I think it can help writers find better ways of telling their stories. It can be a useful tool in the editing process but ultimately, writers will always need human input to see whether what they have written appeals to the human senses. I believe one could write with an assist from AI but the final edit and proofreading should be done by a human being.

@gagadreams Год назад

I don't think so, there are people like me who love writing and will always want to write! I love to write my own script for a video but use AI to read it back! 😊

@harpo345 Год назад

I agree. A 20-second novel will be grammatically correct and have some sort of formulaic plot structure, but it will reflect the common-sense, knowledge of the world and insight into human nature of a machine. In other words it will be laughable. Remember, when we see these AI programs being displayed, they are being fed questions carefully crafted to play to their strengths. When you go a little way off script, they get completely lost.

@ChaosMaiden2 Год назад

At this point, I can’t see it. I use it to brainstorm ideas or if I’m stuck in a scene. I give ideas about what I want to be conveyed or the characters’ motivations, and it gives me ideas on how to implement that. For fun, I’ve tried giving it a few sentences from my story, and telling it to write 300 or 400 words following, and see what it comes up with. Or having it rewrite a passage in a certain style, and seeing what it changes to set that mood. I think AI should remain just a tool, and having publishers flood the market with books “written” in 20 seconds would be a bad thing for writing until it collapsed on itself.

@UrbanSwagger Год назад

I'm convinced the autobiography of Hodor (North from Winterfell) was written by ChatGPT.

@frankwalton7323 Год назад

I don't know it but do you consider it a success or failure?

@UrbanSwagger Год назад

@frankwalton7323 Hodor is a "Game of Thrones" character whose vocabulary is limited to the one word: "Hodor." The 507-page autobiography is a joke novelty in which the word: Hodor" is repeated tens of thousands of times, with different emphasis and punctuation. "Hodor, hodor, hodor, hodor. Hodor? HODOR! Hodor, hodor, hodor." I can't imagine a human would have the patience to write, let alone typeset, such a monstrosity. 😂

@armegadahn5572 Год назад

I don’t know why you look for literary agents and publishers but the vanity publishing company try to contact you first .

@donemigholzjr.7344 Год назад

AI can learn and most of all remember. All stories could easily be cataloged and patented like domain names or drum beats for music. You could call a publisher or a Literary agent could call about an idea for a new book and by the time he hangs up the call the book will be written by AI. Now what?

@micapetru8858 Год назад

Will this tool be used to make books? Yes. Can it truly create worlds, heartfelt characters, compelling ideas or concepts? No. That is only reserved for the human spark deep inside all of us, for those who choose to let it out into the wild, for it to shine on others. No matter how advanced AI will get, it will never surpass the human spirit. The books it will create will be in the end just hollow husks with no true substance. Even if it will be more intelligent..... it will NEVER achieve wisdom. Only humans have a soul. Remember that.

@grabble7605 Год назад

"Only humans have a soul." Prove it, or else that's just a bunch of feel-good self-important rhetoric.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

@@grabble7605 They don't have to prove anything. it's the technology that's unproven. You're on the the "prov it" side of the equation

@ivandimitrov8260 9 месяцев назад

There is ways to say this. But I'll do it like this. Nothing is original. Everything people can perceive has words and has been expressed. Once you input enough unique structure to create context with words in the AI and it has enough computational power it will be able to write anything you want the way you want in a "unique way". Words are not infinite and structure of language is not infinitely complex. The technology is advancing in a blistering pace and it will cause huge issues sooner rather than later. Once it has enough data You can blend 90 authors styles. It will be unique based on math. But in reality it will be similar to a lot of what is out there. The unique element will be, structure of the story, how much is shown and how much is told, what you have focused on in the prompts for it to write on and how you have trained it to write. Now this does not mean authors will not be needed or become obsolete. But we will be forced to focus on the market and what people want to read a lot more, we will have to be predicting the future, precisely. The other thing that might happen is people starting to go to AI for it to write a book crafted for them to like by them. A book that will sell is how to prompt AI to create your perfect story. Once an AI has enough data on you it will know exactly what you want. LLMs have one weakness they don't actually *know* what is what. They do not have senses. They might know how to describe a cup how to write a novel on cups and what the best cups are for the different types of drinks perfectly. *But* it will not *Know* what a cup is in the reality we live in. Texture,warmth,sight,colour,taste,motion of the wind passing the cup by,lastly emotion, It will know how to elicit emotion from you though.. I can see 2 other things Either language is going to simplify or become more complicated to compensate needing more challenge to read or wanting to read mindlessly without for those brain chemicals to make you happy but not really take in anything of substance.

@zenmite Год назад

Chatbots will not be taking authors' jobs any time soon because they are not capable of creating the same level of original content that human authors can. Chatbots are limited by the data they are trained on, and they cannot think creatively or come up with new ideas. Additionally, chatbots cannot understand the nuances of human language, which can lead to misunderstandings and errors. Human authors, on the other hand, are able to draw on their own experiences and knowledge to create unique and engaging content. They are also able to understand and respond to the needs of their readers in a way that chatbots cannot. While chatbots may be able to automate some tasks that authors currently do, they will never be able to replace the human element that is essential to great writing. In conclusion, chatbots are not a threat to authors' jobs. They are limited in their capabilities and are not able to replace the human element that is essential to great writing. That's the Response from Google Bard I thought it might be fun to input the question to an AI.

@stephenlayland2889 Год назад

And then there's the AI random propensity to "hallucinate". Woe betide the writer who turns in a thriller manuscript which goes haring off of the plotline to follow C.S. Forester spotting flowers.

@bobworrall8054 Год назад

There’s a science fiction story waiting to be written about AIs writing stories. If only I can get it typed up before an AI beats me to it. Of course, in the AI’s version, the AI will come out on top. :-)

@jonathangamboa8605 Год назад

I've been working on the same thing.

@andeeharry Год назад

Of course it isn't lol. It is just a feature like editing-out loud, or corrects your spelling, or reading digitally...it won't do much other than being a feature

@drd_theSPORTSdoc Год назад

Yes... AI = regurgitation .., Creative = Inspirit-ation.., k*

@aaronhunyady Год назад

I've already used chatGPT to help with writing-not generating actual text, but brainstorming ideas for dramatic situations that might occur in the chapter I was blanking on. I've used it for a quick check to see if the math works out in a scenario (it's not bad at math problems). There are a lot of problems with the latest version but even so, I think we'll see people start cranking out AI-generated novels this year, and chances are they'll be better than some mediocre human manuscripts. There's the potential to flood the market with books, making it harder for human writers to get their books sold. Future AI will for sure be a lot more creative, and I think people don't quite understand how quickly they are developing. My feeling is that human creativity won't be easily distinguishable from AI creativity in about 2 years. Creativity boils down to recycling old ideas in new ways or synthesizing new ideas from combinations of old ones (AI can do this a little), and then assessing the ideas to see if it's good (from what I've seen, AI isn't great at this yet, though it is great at generating tons of ideas quickly).

@scaredypicker 10 месяцев назад

No one who really loves creative writing or art should lean on this crutch. It isn’t and never will be the writer’s work. It’s derivative, and what’s worse, is it’s only possible because great things have already been written for it to steal from. Creative writing should always be an expression of oneself, and even if it’s rough around the edges, it will still be worth far more than this AI crap. What scares me more than anything is the idea that people will stop wanting to be creative because AI has removed all meaning from art. As soon as we give in and say it’s okay to use, it’s the beginning of the end.

@lanceevans1689 Год назад

Unfortunately, AI’s limitations are only significant if the average consumer even notices them. It won’t be long before some publisher is more than happy to save on the authors fee and starts down the road of publishing AI works.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

In the US this would be playing with fire, as copyright law enshrines work by human authors. They would be flooding the market with books that instantly enter the public domain. Not a chance most corporations are willing to take, as demonstrated by Disney.

@lanceevans1689 Год назад

@@futurestoryteller I couldn't disagree more. Do one pass of human editing and it becomes legally copy rightable. And Disney???? Most of their most famous works were NOT their own, but works already in the public domain. So you seem to be making my point for me.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

@@lanceevans1689 Are you _trying_ to make me laugh!? No, one pass of editing does not make you the primary creator, but try it with full disclosure at the US Copyright Office and see if they take your view of things. I shouldn't even have to explain about Disney, it's like talking to Rip Van Winkle or something.

@lanceevans1689 Год назад

@@futurestoryteller Well, I'm speaking from over 30 years of publishing experience in NYC. You clearly have a different take on it.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

@@lanceevans1689 Is this supposed to make you an authority on US Copyright? In those supposed 30 years, how many books did you claim sole and absolute credit for editing?

@lotterywinnerstats4971 Месяц назад

Screw them all, rasise the price!

@DonkiDonkey Год назад

AI can create things that never existed, and creativity is simply a unique combination of mundane things. Machines rely on their dataset, and we humans depend on our experiences. In the end, no one had truly created something from nothing. Every idea ultimately came from somewhere. AI is simply an amplifier, so a template prompt begets a generic response. ChatGPT is a great research tool that can blend any ideas together like, fishing horror Pokémon or a malicious wand choosing a wizard. But even that is not enough to sustain a full-length novel, and GPT4 just cannot crank out enough plot materials on its own. I use chatGPT to brainstorm ideas, critique my manuscript, explore ways to execute certain scenes, and try to learn from it in general. You can even have a chatbot roleplay as a character in your novel, it's amazing. Ironically, I believe that professional writers are the ones that can get the most value from the chatbots, not template monkeys like myself. GPT4 works best when fed with a detailed baseline already crafted by the writers. Not a generic "write a novel", and it writes a bestseller. It doesn't work like that. lmao.

@teapot6711 3 месяца назад

These 20 second AI books will add value to Human written books and increase their prices. People will respect human written books more.

@azrielackerman4659 Год назад

ChatGPT barely understands witty word-play, so I'm not too worried.

@mothersoul1 9 месяцев назад

The problem also are teachers are eating this AI garbage up to use it to do lesson plans. Just feeding this monster

@UncleIJT Год назад

AI/Chapgpt is going to end the scammers and those who offer self publishing services. That charge $500 or more.

@johnnyb.5281 7 месяцев назад

Tell us you haven't seen A Space Odyssey without saying it.

@nicholashillofficial 16 дней назад

Good video. However, ChatGPT is sadly not as limited as you say. It has access to the exhaustive data on the internet including previously published books. Therefore it has access to all knowledge we have acquired over centuries.

@futurestoryteller Год назад

While I broadly agree with your points, I actually think you give AI way too much credit. I don't think there can be anything truly artistic about a work that is mostly AI generated, and when it becomes complex enough to replicate that feeling for an audience it can't be authentic either, because it is by nature artificial, artificiality is inauthentic by definition. If someone tells you a story that's true, and someone else tells you the same story, but pretends it is their story, both people have told you a true story but one is inherently inauthentic. The best AI output is essentially this, because the model produces things that we can understand, it did not produce them form a place of understanding. It's worth mentioning that generative works are not legally retainable as intellectual property according to the US Copyright Office.