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.
Right now “AI” is just a souped-up version of Google Autocomplete: it puts words together which often go together. If you read about a page of it, you realize it is pointless in the most basic sense of the word: it has no point or goal, it just meanders in a stream-of-internet-consciousness. The books put together using it are going to be drops in an ocean of cheap crap.
In the longer term, sure, it could it could upend authorship, but in the longer term it could upend a lot of other things too, in ways which are fruitless to speculate in detail about right now since so much is unknown.