AI in Writing: Scary or Nah?

[@nonsensefreeeditor]

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[@dionnemcbride1298]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for this video! I just "discovered" Sudowrite, and, let's just say, I was about to FREAK OUT! I am working on my first novel, an urban fantasy, and with all the AI talk I was beginning to think that I should just forget it. I'm not a rapid release or write-to-market writer. With that said, you made me feel better (thanks for your straight-forward, sarcastic wit - you're my spirit animal). I'm going to keep writing my book, work on producing a quality product (yes, I will hire a HUMAN editor), and learn some AI in the process. Thanks again!

[@nonsensefreeeditor]

Definitely! You do not need to feel guilty about using AI. It's just a tool like any other and it can be very helpful with idea generation or any number of things. I'm glad you're diving in!

[@gentrydavidson]

Well said! Story Engine uses gpt-4. Much validation is needed, almost like working with a jr writer. Doesn't takes the last chapter into context (yet). All your points are great. AI will not replace you, but a human using AI will.

[@nonsensefreeeditor]

Thanks for that correction! I’m just diving into Story Engine and it’s definitely helpful, but not a replacement. I had more than one client send me concerned messages so I figured I’d make the video to help out things in perspective:)

[@theradioactivepatient]

That's why I'd like to know how to use AI. Just think, in a medical setting, being the medical records keeper, inputting all the chart notes and in the morning, double checking the triage list of "Most Serious Cases" before handing it to the doctor. That's the thing, these things will need human oversight.

[@lanejack2860]

thank you for this video. I'm current using sudowrite to create a universe rather than a novel. I'm doing world building and chracter design before I really write out the stories. More writer should pay attention to your channel. I certainly will.

[@Cloneufc]

AI is so great for sentence rewrites, grammar and sentence structure. However, AI cannot write an entertaining and creative story. What it writes is an articulate dead story.

[@stephaniedalportofantasy]

The way you put this is so helpful. Thank You!

[@garyclements318]

How do i know if you're a virtual character created by AI, or real? That's how fast it's evolving. I heard that soon they won't need real actors and actresses to make movies. And it will be less expensive. Kind of creepy to me.

[@michaelregan2419]

Who owns the output generated in conjunction with these AI programs like story engine?

[@ArifGhostwriter]

This is the question had too few are asking!

[@theradioactivepatient]

Did you see the "60 Minutes" Scott Pelley interview about ChatGPT, Bard, Deep Mind etc.?

[@theradioactivepatient]

So in "60 Minutes" interview last week, they input that six word short story often attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Something like, "Baby Shoes. For Sale. Never Worn" and the bot wrote a short story in 5 seconds. Ok, so that's fast, but the short story was sophomoric and sappy. The poem it wrote was even worse. If all it's doing is predicting patterns, then its output won't be profound or groundbreaking. You need a human being for that.

[@phantasmagoriac9225]

Damn straight

[@emeryltekutsu4357]

I don't mind tools, and I think it's fine to use tools, but people need to understand what those tools are and how they work. For example, I use things like Grammarly all the time to help me spot problems. But I don't rely on it, because it's wrong plenty of the time. The thing about AI is that it's not creating. It's actually probably wrong to even call it "AI". All it's doing is pulling from a bunch of seeds and regurgitating it onto your plate. There's not intelligence to it. If you take the same seeds, and put in the same input, it will produce the same thing every time, because it's not thinking. There isn't a creative process there. That's what I think people really, really need to understand and be cautious about. This has not gone through the courts yet, and we don't know what will happen in court. If the AI you're pulling content from has only put in content that the rights owners have agreed to, then you're fine. If the AI you're using has taken content from all over without asking the owners of those copyrights, you might screw yourself. You would be asking the courts to look at it as a transformative work rather than a derivative work, and the AI doesn't meet the standards necessary for that. Simply looking or presenting itself as different isn't enough to be transformative. The type of work (are you producing the same thing as the original? in this case, yes. The AI takes from stories to make stories. It's the same type of work), the message behind the work (is the computer pulling from the work to send a message, like a parody work would be? No. The computer doesn't have a message), the market it's competing in (the AI is pulling from the market to produce content for the same market), and the amount you take (with AI, it's 100% taken), all matter to determine if it's transformative. AI fails all of these, and you have to pass every one of those points for it to be transformative. Even if it appears different on the surface, that doesn't make it transformative, and people may put themselves in a questionable position by assuming it's legally fine to generate new works using AI. Particularly if they're selling those works. New tools are fine. I would make the same recommendation I do to people using AI for art, though. Use it as a reference, maybe, or to help get ideas. Don't use it as a finished product. You don't know yet if you can even own the rights to that. Especially because a lot of these things are generating content by stealing right now. What will happen in court? Who knows. Courts are human, and it won't be surprising if it gets put in front of a judge who barely knows how to turn on a computer. But if you care about your work, I wouldn't put it at risk. I use AI to slap together an example of what I want on my cover art, for example, in order to show my artist. I would not, however, have ANY AI art on my finished cover. I make sure when I hire an artist that it's all drawn, because I want the rights to that piece without question.

[@nonsensefreeeditor]

Anyone who publishes unedited AI-generated novels is most likely risking infringing on someone else’s work. But if used properly, as a starting point, I think authors will indeed be creating original work

[@emeryltekutsu4357]

@@nonsensefreeeditor I think it's fine for things like coming up with an idea and such. It's just a tool, and like all tools it has to be used properly. I think the main problem right now is more that people don't seem to understand that, and there's an abundance of people who think it's an easy button. I suppose, like most things, the wheat will be separated from the chaff in time. Personally, I'm not really worried about AI replacing me. It'll be a long, long time before a computer is advanced enough to actually replace a human. And we'll really be in a new age when computers reach the point that they can create transformative work. We'll have to start deciding if we need to give them citizenship at that point.