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perhaps i will give it a shot. in that spirit, i think this quote from a prominent literary fiction author should not have caused them so much trouble.
When writing my latest novel… I asked this advanced model what kind of songs my protagonists would be listening to at a dance, a few dozen years ago, and AI gave me a few titles … Often I just ask the machine, ‘darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’ Even though I know about hallucinations and many factual errors in the algorithms in terms of economics and hard data, I have to add that in literary fiction this technology is an advantage of unbelievable proportion.
darling, how could we develop this {software} beautifully? feel free to suggest any feature requests, but remember they’d need to be universal. most features you can add yourself with the built-in tools.
that said, i do not have a backlog at launch, so beggars can’t be choosers. i’m sure i’ll think of something!
but seriously, to this question, i guess: enough is neither a pro-ai nor an anti-ai product. yes, LLMs are a big part of the ai push. but if you control and constrain them, they can help you write better without writing for you.
if it feels like i’m “hiding the ai” at times, it’s because i’m trying to imagine how writers will be working in 20 years while maintaining pride in their writing abilities.
hopefully the reasons why it is the way it is are clearer after reading all this stuff.
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