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by itishappy 669 days ago
In theory. It'll be more convincing once generative AI proves itself useful for writing novels.
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AI can already write short stories, just not very good ones. It'll be doing novels once the context windows are big enough.
Note also that base models (foundation models) are much better at writing fiction than models tuned for chat. See https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/706441900479152128/no...
Agreed, the technology looks promising but isn't ready yet.
It's orders of magnitude better than procedural methods written by humans.
At writing novels or creating games? I'm open to evidence of either...
At writing novels. So potentially also at procedural level design.
I'm admittedly skeptical. The AI generated novels I've seen have been bad. Really really bad. It's been a few months, however, so maybe the landscape has evolved faster than I expected.

Is there a source you can recommend for further reading?

I've been able to write coherent stories a dozen pages long. You need to have it generate plot points and other auxiliary information about characters and whatnot and it does a pretty good job. Obviously it's not going to one shot all that yet.