[empath75]

I actually think there's going to be a big industry there, and right now, it's just mass-producing slop to exploit not-very-discerning publishing channels, but eventually an AI pipeline that can churn out mediocre, but extremely personalized one-off novels and stories on demand will be a real business.

[SpicyLemonZest]

Will it be? I used to think that was an obvious opportunity in short-form video content, but Sora kinda flopped. I'm increasingly sympathetic to the idea that people consume content as a form of indirect community-building, and if that's the case there may genuinely not be much demand for a one-off novel that they'll love but nobody else will ever read.

[empath75]

I actually think Sora did okay, but I suspect that a lot of people were just making videos for themselves and not sharing them and that didn't match their business model and was very expensive.

[jdw64]

If I can figure out a way to securely manage the AI API keys, this actually sounds like a viable business idea. However, I’ll need to think it through, as I don't have experience running a live web service—my background has strictly been in custom software delivery.

I initially built and delivered this system for a specific publisher to accommodate the Korean market's standard, which requires hitting a certain character count for a text to be recognized as a single chapter. I'm not entirely sure how to pivot this into a standalone SaaS yet, so I'll need to give it some more thought.

Thank you for the advice