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How do you think that AI will influence storytelling?

I have been experimenting by integrating AI into my writing process. I have been using ChatGPT for ideation and Github Copilot to contextually autocomplete sentences and paragraphs for me.

It's cool. But the more I think about it the more skeptical I am that AI will ever be able to supplant human's ability to tell stories. The thing that makes stories so interesting to me personally is riding around in the thoughts and feeling of another human being. It's the tropes and plot expectations that authors play with via story promises. It's the higher level story architecture and plot design.

Maybe it will get there eventually, but currently the way that AI language models work is by taking aggregate ideas for millions of humans texts and combining them. This is the exact opposite of how great stories are created. Great stories have traditionally are born from the mind of an individual, this is the case because very unique viewpoints and perspectives are the exact thing that makes stories so interesting. There are countless examples of giant teams ruining beloved stories that were created by an individual (New Star Wars, The Hobbit Movies, Game of Thrones).

But I've been thinking about this in isolation. Have any other writers or readers on Nostr given thought to how AI will impact storytelling?

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Steininger 2y ago

I see it as a personal assistant primarily for research. There's very little poetry in AI and there's a massive uncanny valley between it and a human. It's extremely helpful though in terms of being a secondary voice who makes you question/strengthen your work. Imo. Good luck with your writing. #Bookstr

lowbrowbuddy 2y ago

It’s another tool, and I hope it will drive writers to be more creative and push conventional plot structures. I think readers will learn to tell what reads as AI generated, even if it’s just a gut feeling, they’ll feel a piece of AI generated work is unsatisfying, much like now how we feel about a book printed with clip art and stock photos vs a set of cohesive illustrations commissioned for the work.

Corporate owned IPs such as Marvel and Stars Wars films are soulless perhaps for different reasons than AI but maybe the resulting works end-up with the same blandness through different processes. Creative collectives working together can still make amazing things, and AI could be part of those teams.

I’ve used ProWritingAid forever for grammar checking. It’s saying it’s AI powered now. I’ve learned a lot using it and it picks up my typos. I’ve used bing search for research and it’s fun, but I have better resources. The internet lost a lot of research potential when ad-driven algorithms and password protected social networks took over the mainstream internet and I don’t know if AI will be able to get us back to late 2000s and 2010s search potential or if it will make it even harder to find genuine human opinions and experience.

gowtywood⚡️🦉 2y ago

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