Human decision making is often driven by greed. AI will allow us to generate essentially infinite customizable content, probably with the ability to imitate famous beloved authors. There’ll probably be softwares you can employ to generate your own stories, and make them infinitely customizable.
We’re at the very beginning and we already see Amazon swamped with AI generated content and art. I’m worried about the future of literature. I’m worried about the future of humanity.
I have no understanding of how people are so confident everything will be fine. Again, we’re profit driven. I don’t think publishers are going to stand for the moral ground.
It already feels like (with how rampant social media content is) nothing is special anymore.
I think it’s going to be a long, long time–decades at least–before AI is capable of generating anything that I’d be interested in reading much of. In a good novel, every detail has to hang together and reference what’s come before and what’s still to come. The kind of little glitches that we’ve learned to pick out in AI-generated art will stick out like a sort thumb in a novel-length written piece.
It may be earlier that AI learns to reproduce the most formulaic, uninspired novels. The dregs of the romance genre, for example. (Nothing against actually good romance novels.) I’m not personally worried about that, because I don’t care about those books.