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One of my long-term goals has been write a couple of novels. Like maybe when this crazy decade blows over and I go onto some other stage of my life, I'll return to that idea.

I have a bunch of firm outlines for fantasy and near-term sci-fi novels, but they're all on my deep back burner.

And now I'm kind of annoyed, because by the time I have a chance to consider writing any of them, probably AI will be better than humans at writing, I don't know. And the funny thing is that one of the stories is set in 2050 and has AI as a theme, but probably by the 2030s that storyline will be obsolete anyway.

I guess the cool thing is that if generative AI gets way better, it'll eventually make it an order of magnitude cheaper to make animated stories or something from source material.

𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 2y ago

Write them anyway! Before AI, there was always the chance a human author could write an idea out “better” than you. That wouldn’t have mattered and the AI aspect doesn’t matter now. None of them would write it the way you would. Better is in the eye of the reader.

I also don’t think it matters if by the time your stories are published, the future you imagined provably won’t come to pass. People can still enjoy original concepts and storylines even if there’s no chance they’ll happen, e.g., alternate histories and fantasy.

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