[aiappreciator]

As I said: "that AI will also master therapy, sales, supervising children, customer service etc, as it now has an strong understanding of human behaviour."

Novel writing is like the training ground for emotional intelligence in AIs. Fiction writing itself is not economically important, but the skills learnt from it is.

As a passionate hobby writer myself. I say you should actually go and try the writing tools, sudowrite/verb.ai are examples. Once you start using them, you start realizing how much they suck at writing stories, and your worries will go away. Unlike art AI, fiction writing AI has not really improved significantly. The core challenges are unsolved since the days of GPT-2.

There's also little research money coming in. Having a truthful, helpful, inoffensive AI is the polar opposite of what you want in a story AI, which should be deceitful, aggressive, and offensive.

[vidarh]

I tried pasting some paragraphs from my work in progress novel into ChatGPT, and asked it to "improve the writing". The output was exactly the kind of crap you'd expect from someone well read but with no writing experience. E.g. way too many adjectives, and reading as if it had been written by looking up every other word in a thesaurus. I tried having it add some paragraphs, and similar thing: A whole lot of beginner-level writing of the "first he did X, and then he did Y. A bit later he did Z" type of writing. And that's testing just the very superficial language issues and ignoring plot entirely

It's impressive it can even do that, and it'll improve, but anyone looking to these tools to generate good fiction at this point will be disappointed.