[wincy]

I can tell you who is reading books every night that are absolutely terrible and don’t require a coherent plot! Children. My kids and I have been crafting a few sentences of some absurd plot then reading a story about it generated by ChatGPT.

My daughter got so excited that she drew pictures of the Chicken Nugget and Cookie brothers and showed them to me after work, it’s like a choose your own adventure book but you can really actually choose your own adventure.

Personally I find the stories vapid and boring but before I was reading some brain dead story about Ariel using her favorite Dinglehopper to brush her hair, so whatever.

We are also reading Little House on the Prairie which I consider a little more “high brow”, and the girls really like that, too. But kids are easy to please and it has been interesting.

[OskarS]

That's a fair point, children's literature (a wonderful and valuable genre) will certainly be under threat. I would probably suggest that nothing an LLM would come up would stay with a person for decades like (say) Were The Wild Things Are. I'm Swedish, so I grew up on Astrid Lindgren, and some of those books move me to this day when I think back on them. I imagine many Americans still find Dr. Seuss hilarious in the same way.

> We are also reading Little House on the Prairie which I consider a little more “high brow”, and the girls really like that, too. But kids are easy to please and it has been interesting.

Yeah, that's kind of my point :) do you think an AI could write Little House on the Prairie? I don't. Sooner or later the vapid and nonsensical plots from LLMs stop being that amusing, and you need to feel real human connections to the things you're reading. That's the reason you read books, after all.