Thanks I Hate It
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rynlingThe strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction
https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper
Lepp, who writes under the pen name Leanne Leeds in the “paranormal cozy mystery” subgenre, allots herself precisely 49 days to write and self-edit a book. This pace, she said, is just on the cusp of being unsustainably slow. She once surveyed her mailing list to ask how long readers would wait between books before abandoning her for another writer. The average was four months. Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test.
I read this article when it came out and blocked it from my mind because it made me so upset. Now, having been reminded of its existence almost two years later, it still makes me unreasonably upset.
But at the same time, an evil part of me feels malicious glee toward the type of writers who brag about how many words they can produce in a day. Like, good for you. A machine can do that, and more. I feel better about my slow progress now. The fact that my words are fought for and then chosen with love and care might not mean much to "consumers," but it means something to me.
Idk man. I recently tried to read one of the popular "cozy mystery with monster romance" books on Kindle Unlimited, and I couldn't make it past the first ten chapters. All the bland and generic coziness made me want to commit acts of domestic terrorism. Like where does Amazon keep its servers. Asking for a friend.
https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper
Lepp, who writes under the pen name Leanne Leeds in the “paranormal cozy mystery” subgenre, allots herself precisely 49 days to write and self-edit a book. This pace, she said, is just on the cusp of being unsustainably slow. She once surveyed her mailing list to ask how long readers would wait between books before abandoning her for another writer. The average was four months. Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test.
I read this article when it came out and blocked it from my mind because it made me so upset. Now, having been reminded of its existence almost two years later, it still makes me unreasonably upset.
But at the same time, an evil part of me feels malicious glee toward the type of writers who brag about how many words they can produce in a day. Like, good for you. A machine can do that, and more. I feel better about my slow progress now. The fact that my words are fought for and then chosen with love and care might not mean much to "consumers," but it means something to me.
Idk man. I recently tried to read one of the popular "cozy mystery with monster romance" books on Kindle Unlimited, and I couldn't make it past the first ten chapters. All the bland and generic coziness made me want to commit acts of domestic terrorism. Like where does Amazon keep its servers. Asking for a friend.
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Date: 2024-04-02 02:31 am (UTC)I don't get it at all, but if they wanna get into an arms race with the bots, go for it.
Also cozy is hell, I thought oh what a fun genre I want to try this, and I have yet to get through one book. I need my atrocities.
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Date: 2024-04-02 01:00 pm (UTC)Anyway, since it's just us down here in this comment section, let me tell you my fantasy: I want AI to write these stories, and I want pay-per-click bot farms to read these stories, and I want this feedback loop of cozy mystery monster fucking to produce the singularity. What could go wrong?