[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.