AI Writes a Novel

OMG, I was just coming into Roundtable to post this! My husband shared it with me on Facebook and asked what my writing forum would think about it. I'll admit, I had a mini rage-stroke reading through the article, and I was not anticipating that. I just think, like, humans are getting along just fine in their creative pursuits. Why is this even a thing?? Let's develop robots that can wash my damn dishes and go grocery shopping for me so I can have more time to write myself.

Microsoft's AI chat-robot, Tay, took to twitter and has been promptly dismissed:

A day after Microsoft introduced an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter it has had to delete it after it transformed into an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, 'Bush did 9/11'-proclaiming robot.

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Based on the evidence of these two AIs, I think we're probably okay for a while yet, KL. Or will be when someone finally invents a real Rosie the Robot.

I laughed waaay too hard at that, Elaine! Thank you for sharing. That does make me feel a leetle bit better.

Reminds me of a William Gibson novel where the AIs are veeeeerrrry eccentric and often quite artistic. They mention one AI who no one can communicate with anymore because it's endlessly writing and re-writing a book.

jjdebenedictis said:

They mention one AI who no one can communicate with anymore because it's endlessly writing and re-writing a book.

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Oh hey! I didn't know I'd been turned into a book character! Whaddaya know!

I say "cool". I don't mind another writer joining the fray, especially if they're good at it.

I don't see myself being replaced by AI writers any time soon. Sure, they can write books, but they can't write the ones that I do.

I saw something about this on Japanese news. I don't know how I feel about this. Writing to me takes soul, heart, and emotion.

jjdebenedictis said:

They mention one AI who no one can communicate with anymore because it's endlessly writing and re-writing a book.

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I'll feel replaced when an AI gets writer's block for days because it fears its work sucks.

Introversion said:

I'll feel replaced when an AI gets writer's block for days because it fears its work sucks.

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I'd actually be keen to outsource that particular part of the writing experience.

Hey, it's a 1984 prediction that ISN'T about a dystopian present! Very nice.

jjdebenedictis said:

I'd actually be keen to outsource that particular part of the writing experience.

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I suspect the machine response would be more along the lines of, "404 - Useless Anxieties Not Found".

But yeah.

I'm a bit skeptical. First, because postmodernists have been making computer generated poetry for ages, in which the code is just as important as its output, and second because it was only coauthored by the machine and had a lot of human input. Also, from what I gather this isn't even the first computer generated novel ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_This_Once)[/URL]. Really cool implications for digital media and computational linguistics, though.

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But I might start stockpiling canned goods, just in case.

I still remember reading the first short story written by AI, and that was back in the late seventies. It was actually pretty good.

Future headlines..?

AI Author Embroiled in Contract Dispute with AI Publisher

Bit Coin Royalties Deleted - AI Scammer Sought as Cyber-Person of Interest

. . . we live in interesting times . . .

ironmikezero said:

Future headlines..?

AI Author Embroiled in Contract Dispute with AI Publisher

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AI Author shows remarkable bad judgment in responding to critical AI Reviewers on Amazon and GoodReads...

Artificial Intelligence pens Authentic Stupidity. Ensuing flame war flouncing results in self-deletion. Singularity to follow.

Is it as good as Chapter 34 of Atlanta Nights?

1110001011111000010111010000 Shades of Gray.

NateSean said:

1110001011111000010111010000 Shades of Gray.

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Or 110010, anyway.

It's certain to be published, which makes it way better than anything I have written, or likely will ever write.

caw

I Feel So Alive, a memoir by Johnny 5.

at this point i'm guessing a food processor would do a better job than i would do.

KTC said:

at this point i'm guessing a food processor would do a better job than i would do.

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blacbird said:

It's certain to be published, which makes it way better than anything I have written, or likely will ever write.

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Oi! No self-flagellation, youse! The world flagellates us enough as it is. Flagellate yourselves only with hugs.