[CuriouslyC]

I don't think these sorts of tools will ever be used to generate a novel or something on that scale. We're building really sexy autocomplete tools that creators will use to fill in the blanks much like the great masters of the renaissance used apprentices to do much of the work in their masterpieces. People will outline what they want, then ask the AI to fill in the blanks, and iteratively refine the result.

As long as we can miniaturize the models sufficiently that individuals and small companies can get output that's comparable to what big corporations with deep pockets can get, these sorts of AI tools have the potential to revolutionize creativity.

[Retric]

Modern word processors haven’t suddenly and dramatically increased the number of great books available. They save a lot of time and effort relative to a typewriter, but such drudgery isn’t the bottleneck on creativity that you’re suggesting.

[CuriouslyC]

I know a lot of writers who are very good at creating an outline and describing what's going on but poor at actually sitting down and getting words on paper for any extended period of time. These same people can read and critique/edit/etc endlessly. I think it's a fairly common problem because block is the number one topic in most forums for writers. Having a tool that takes an outline and generates a rough draft of a chapter that can be iterated on would make a huge difference for the non-Stephen Kings among us.

[bckr]

This is a great use case and in fact I would pay for this service. Sitting and barfing up text can be fun when I'm inspired, but I'm frequently not inspired but would still like to make progress on my stories.

[Retric]

It’s cheap to pay someone to create a rough draft from an outline, no need for AI. However, doing so isn’t very helpful.

[awillen]

Ever is an exceedingly long time. I would be shocked if 100 years from now, we didn't have AI-authored bestselling novels. Even then, they might not be literary masterpieces, but certainly AI will be able to write formulaic stuff that sells really well.

If you don't believe that, just consider where technology was 100 years ago and what the response would have been if you'd described DALL-E in its current incarnation and asked people if they thought that would ever come to pass.

[CuriouslyC]

I think it'll always be "human decides what book is about, cues AI, then gives feedback to AI to refine output," The cues will just need to be less specific and well crafted, and the amount of feedback required will go down. Maybe eventually AI will be able to one-shot amazing novels, but they'll still need taste makers to read the output and promote it, which isn't really much faster than a taste maker asking for what they want directly then reading/requesting changes.

[ilaksh]

DALL-E is already been outdone my Imagen.

[ilaksh]

Never is a long time.