Journalist Guides AI to Generate Mystery Novella, Raising Questions About AI's Role in Creative Writing
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Journalist Stephen Marche used AI to generate most of the prose for his mystery novella "Death of an Author". He had to carefully guide the AI applications through the writing process.
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Marche calls the book "AI-crafted" since he manipulated the technology to generate the text, but he's still the creator. The terms we use to describe AI-generated content can be contradictory.
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Using AI didn't necessarily save Marche time in writing the book, but it allowed him to explore derivative art in interesting ways.
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AI struggles with plots and double meanings - Marche had to explicitly state the literary tricks he wanted the AI to employ.
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We're still in the early "it's amazing this can be done" stage with AI writing. The ultimate artistic forms this technology will take are still unknown.