Many of us have been talking about AI increasingly over the last little while, and it's a discussion point in the WGA writer's strike that's been going on right now. Actually, as of this Newspost, the actors have just gone on strike as well, joining the writers in solidarity, or maybe are having their own strike for their own sake, or something; I'm not 100% clear on that.

What I've seen of AI writing - and I've watched some people demonstrate it, and also done some experimenting with it myself - it can already map out the structural parts of writing pretty easily. Like, following the rules of grammar, and also the deeper structures of story, like outlining a first, second and third act in general terms (I prompted AI to give me some outlines of stories based on some specific details I provided). The outlines made sense, and made for a fine place to start a piece of writing. I'm not sure how original or effective these ideas were - probably not all that original (and AI probably CAN'T be original).

The technology will only get more effective - in my opinion, there's a human element that this technology will probably never grasp. It will never quite be there. Just my layman's opinion. The nuance of the understanding of life, relationships, and even references to cultural points: artificial intelligence might reach the point where it can reference these things - but I don't believe it will ever grasp them enough to really pass muster as the writing of a human.



That doesn't mean there aren't dangers to this technology. Benefits, and also dangers. I have seen that the striking writers want to stop studios from using AI to create stories. The fear is (and I can definitely see this happening) that the studios will use AI to “write” stories and scripts, and will pay writers to REWRITE (which is a lower rate of pay). The rewrite will be an attempt to give the scripts ‘humanity’ I guess - and will probably result in lower quality, less original, more awkward work than if capable human writers were in charge from the beginning.

In a fictional setting, this kind of struggle, with Executives championing cheaper AI writing against human writers, would result in those Execs getting Karmically and ironically punished. I don't know what will become of this, but I have this intuition that life is sometimes humorously ironic in its Karma. We'll see.

Let me share a prompt my brother sent me, and the AI-generated response:




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