I think his concept is interesting, but fails the Twitter test. Most people DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. So the idea that they'll tell a machine is essentially a non-starter.
I'm not buying his Hollow Live AI prediction. Is it technologically feasible? Sure it is. But even the most ardent tech-fans will find it boring. Books aren't about having your own ideas and preferences echoed back at you, are they? The whole point is that they give you something new, unexpected, surprising, which the other humans - authors - transmit to you for your reflection. How can you surprise or educate yourself through AI generating for you your own wishes and ideas?
Even books that you like often contain segments that you find weaker, questionable, or you miss their point (and get it years later), etc. Sure, there will be some terminal consumers who will just be plugged into the Matrix and the AI will be feeding them their daily dose of low-effort self-regurgitated junk, but I would imagine it will mostly be people who don't bother with books in their current form anyway...
Well keep in mind what he's talking about is HOLOLIVE the V-tuber organization from Japan as the comparison to servicing the audience. Once you understand that comparison with the various types of v-tubers that hit a variety of audience niches than it makes a lot more sense.
Oh. Well, I don't follow the v-tuber or similar bizarre stuff, so I didn't know that. But even then, developing this idea based on a fairly weak wordplay seems a bit forced...
Books aren't about having your own ideas and preferences echoed back at you, are they?
If you go by the big 5, yes. They market for women and pedos. They don't want books by men, or that have strong male characters.
I can see people turning to AI slop, especially if all they have to do is set a prompt.
My books aren't about the niche. I've always wanted to write a series of books that are high fantasy. But as I've aged, I've also wanted to see Fantasy grow up and have adult discussions.
Why have authors use AI at all, when I as a reader can just ask AI myself for something I am interested in reading? The only value-add for human authors is to create something so uniquely compelling that an AI could never conceive of it. I can prompt AI for plagiarized fiction directly.
I’m sick of the whiny doom-pilling. It always assumes a specific use-case that always generates crap, rather than the methods that use AI to amplify the creative and qualitative bandwidth of writers.
I think his concept is interesting, but fails the Twitter test. Most people DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. So the idea that they'll tell a machine is essentially a non-starter.
I'm not buying his Hollow Live AI prediction. Is it technologically feasible? Sure it is. But even the most ardent tech-fans will find it boring. Books aren't about having your own ideas and preferences echoed back at you, are they? The whole point is that they give you something new, unexpected, surprising, which the other humans - authors - transmit to you for your reflection. How can you surprise or educate yourself through AI generating for you your own wishes and ideas?
Even books that you like often contain segments that you find weaker, questionable, or you miss their point (and get it years later), etc. Sure, there will be some terminal consumers who will just be plugged into the Matrix and the AI will be feeding them their daily dose of low-effort self-regurgitated junk, but I would imagine it will mostly be people who don't bother with books in their current form anyway...
Well keep in mind what he's talking about is HOLOLIVE the V-tuber organization from Japan as the comparison to servicing the audience. Once you understand that comparison with the various types of v-tubers that hit a variety of audience niches than it makes a lot more sense.
Oh. Well, I don't follow the v-tuber or similar bizarre stuff, so I didn't know that. But even then, developing this idea based on a fairly weak wordplay seems a bit forced...
I don't think it was intentional word play, just an accidental miswritten brand name is all.
Books aren't about having your own ideas and preferences echoed back at you, are they?
If you go by the big 5, yes. They market for women and pedos. They don't want books by men, or that have strong male characters.
I can see people turning to AI slop, especially if all they have to do is set a prompt.
My books aren't about the niche. I've always wanted to write a series of books that are high fantasy. But as I've aged, I've also wanted to see Fantasy grow up and have adult discussions.
Can AI do that? Not in the right way.
Why have authors use AI at all, when I as a reader can just ask AI myself for something I am interested in reading? The only value-add for human authors is to create something so uniquely compelling that an AI could never conceive of it. I can prompt AI for plagiarized fiction directly.
I’m sick of the whiny doom-pilling. It always assumes a specific use-case that always generates crap, rather than the methods that use AI to amplify the creative and qualitative bandwidth of writers.
If you want my rambling thoughts I dumped them here: https://open.substack.com/pub/starquillcodex/p/jarvis-i-could-use-some-help?r=5tpdy2&utm_medium=ios
Books? Multimedia.