[avereveard]

well yeah it always is about protectionism and barrier to entry

I find it interesting tho that they are not worried about competition between writers within the association, they will have members that decide for using assisted writing and being a lot more productive than others.

[autoexec]

The point is that they can decide for themselves if using AI would benefit them and choose to use it or not

Personally, I wonder how useful AI is going to be in terms of output over the long term. AI will endlessly regurgitate a mash up of what it was trained on in various flavors, but the output will all seem pretty samey after a while since it lacks actual originality. "This reads like something AI wrote" is something I see a lot of already. I'm sure there'll be writers who find it useful, but I don't see it being used for the bulk of their output. At least, I hope they don't just churn out scripts with AI, spend 5 minutes tweaking them, then call it day. I can't imagine that making great material.

[scarface_74]

How is that any different than the way stories have always been told?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots

[Kye]

This is a writing tool.

You're making the same mistake AI people do. You can create stuff that's like what came before all day, but it won't create anything new. Literary analysis, like these plots and the more common monomyth, is about what already exists, and lags far behind. It's the same deal with music theory. People will spend years in music school learning all kinds of stuff about music, but then they have no idea how to make anything anyone wants to listen to. Music theory as taught in schools is just catching up to jazz, rock, and rap, and there's a lot of resistance.

An AI could probably do some solid analysis, like producing a beat sheet from a novel. That might be helpful. I could pants a draft, then have an AI make the outline for the second draft.

[scarface_74]

Look at the top 10 movies released this year. Do any of them have a plot that you would consider it anything new?

[Kye]

I'm not a film analyst, so I can't say since I haven't done the work to analyze them.

[scarface_74]

Not as a film analyst. Just as someone who has seen any of the popular movies that have been released recently. Which ones have had a plot that you walked out of in amazement and didn’t just employ the standard tropes?

But that’s Sturgeons Law in a nutshell I guess