The newly released Kingkiller Chronicle novel made me laugh.
Overall though, do you worry there is a sort of emptiness here? You mention a passion project, for example, but the passion seems stripped from it: the process of creative writing reduced to something similar to ordering a meal. Not to mention, human "writers" seem to serve the role of prompt-giver, in this world, but if we have already gifted so much of the process to AI, why would it not also claim ideation as well?
I'm no Luddite, nor am I totally against AI assistance in creative endeavors, but there is a balance to monitor: is the machine assisting us, or are we assisting the machine? Incentives push us toward the latter, which scares me. It feels like the erasure of humanism, while simultaneously being carried out in its name.
EDIT: I've read a bit more of your work (and enjoyed it very much) and learned this is an older post ported over without previous comments included. So, apologies if I've retreaded familiar territory here!
I suppose I think that it's impossible to strip the passion from a passion project. Because all artists will continue to work on the part of their art that they are most passionate about. They might just use AI as a tool to help them. Picaso, for example, used a ruler to achieve straight lines in his paintings, all that did is make it turn out the way that he wanted to turn out. James Cameron used CGI to animate Avatar, but all that did is make the film have the aesthetic he wanted it to have.
Personally, I love writing. I don't imagine I will ever have AI write my essays or fiction for me. But I would love its help with research, or rewording a dialogue that isn't going well, or checking for plot holes. If there's a bit of my work that is time consuming but not all that creative, I'm happy to outsource that part. In the end, I think artists will continue to be just as creative as before, they will just have more resources at their disposal to make the art they want to make!
The newly released Kingkiller Chronicle novel made me laugh.
Overall though, do you worry there is a sort of emptiness here? You mention a passion project, for example, but the passion seems stripped from it: the process of creative writing reduced to something similar to ordering a meal. Not to mention, human "writers" seem to serve the role of prompt-giver, in this world, but if we have already gifted so much of the process to AI, why would it not also claim ideation as well?
I'm no Luddite, nor am I totally against AI assistance in creative endeavors, but there is a balance to monitor: is the machine assisting us, or are we assisting the machine? Incentives push us toward the latter, which scares me. It feels like the erasure of humanism, while simultaneously being carried out in its name.
EDIT: I've read a bit more of your work (and enjoyed it very much) and learned this is an older post ported over without previous comments included. So, apologies if I've retreaded familiar territory here!
I suppose I think that it's impossible to strip the passion from a passion project. Because all artists will continue to work on the part of their art that they are most passionate about. They might just use AI as a tool to help them. Picaso, for example, used a ruler to achieve straight lines in his paintings, all that did is make it turn out the way that he wanted to turn out. James Cameron used CGI to animate Avatar, but all that did is make the film have the aesthetic he wanted it to have.
Personally, I love writing. I don't imagine I will ever have AI write my essays or fiction for me. But I would love its help with research, or rewording a dialogue that isn't going well, or checking for plot holes. If there's a bit of my work that is time consuming but not all that creative, I'm happy to outsource that part. In the end, I think artists will continue to be just as creative as before, they will just have more resources at their disposal to make the art they want to make!