A random thought

With people now using AI to create stories and books, is it even worth writing anything anymore?

If someone is looking to publish, it seems kind of futile since, much like anything that becomes a quick buck maker (thinking of all the people who saturated the markets with vinyl stickers produced with circuit, anything that can be quickly mass produced for cheep by anyone), the book industry will just become saturated with people publishing low quality AI created books. This greatly affects self publishing authors because they will be the first to be in direct competition with these AI books.

I mean, it won't affect me because I decided a while ago any writing I do will be for me and those I wish to share it with and not for mass audiences. But I have to think that the organic writing will eventually be made irrelevant and undesireable as people use AI like 1000 monkeys at typewriters.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

Even worse. Someone can give AI a prompt like "write a novel about a family reunion, in the style of Stephen King."

A publisher could publish it, make up a phony author name, and push it with reviews like "reminiscent of Stephen King."

There is an interesting lawsuit I read about. I do not know its status at the moment. But visual artists were suing ChatGPT, because all of the AI-generated art is created by algorithms that scan the internet for real art by real artists, but those artists do not get compensated for their contribution to the final product. If that suit is successful, perhaps authors will do the same.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@DrWatson Intellectual Property has always taken a huge beating when the internet gained large volumes of users, and copyright is almost non-existent. It has been a fight that has been raging since the late 1990's - early 2000's.

Corporations who profit off other people's IP without any compensation has been going on since that time. That was when it eas first discovered that others were directly profiting off basically stealing other people's ideas.

As long as Corporations with financial power want to continue using IP with no responsibility, I think that fight will always be there.

But lort help you if you steal *their* IP!

HoeBag · 46-50, F

@DrWatson Artists, musicians, or whoever can litigate but the companies who steal IP probably figure that settlements will ultimately cost less than trying to compensate the original artists.

I do not know why big celebrities are so concerned anyways, they are loaded. They act like they are broke but we know that is a crock.

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@HoeBag I don't think the lawsuit is being brought by anyone "big." And I am glad when a big celebrity, who can afford top-notch lawyers, brings a suit, because it sets a precedent that helps the not-so-big down the road.