Yeah, it's fascinating to play with, but the problem, as cliche as it is, is that it still can't come up with anything NEW. This is something people miss, because it CAN recombine a bunch of things it knows in superficially "new" ways, and yes, part of human creation is drawing on things we've read/seen before. But humans have something AI doesn't: the experience of being alive. The experience of being a person moving through space and time, acting and being acted on, rather that a static database on a server. And whenever we make something it ends up being filtered through that experience, consciously and unconsciously. That's how we make truly NEW things. Talking to an LLM is like talking to Wikipedia, or every SEO "help" article ever written. It's fine as a reference material, but it's never going to look at what it has and put it together in a novel way. It's never going to INVENT. And the problem is that idiots don't understand this, they think the revolution is now, they get caught up in the glitter and go to AI for "generating ideas", which is the worst idea imaginable. Because the result is that you're going to get the most average, predictable, middle-of-the-road narrative, scenarios, characters etc imaginable. It's also kind of dark in another way, because the whole point of art and fiction is for one HUMAN unconscious, which can't communicate via normal speech and writing, to have a way to escape the brain cage and talk to other unconsciousness in other brains. Putting AI in the drivers seat, instead of simply as an assistant, defeats the whole purpose; it's like food with no calories, no taste, and no texture: what's the point?
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I think the whole fascination about AI is simply convenience. Sure, it is cool to generate some simple blank story about a topic, but it's not a real production. Real storywriting goes being convenience, because it requires planning and plotting to make it all connected. As far as of now, AI is unable to reach any sort of progression beyond the very basic. Also, its sense of coherency is very lacking.
As you said, AI misses the experience of living. It can't understand and reproduce the sensation of grief, hate, love, like great books out there can. It can try to mimic, but it's so artificial you can't really dig it. Also, for it only bases out of a database, it doesn't generate a writing style. It's the very same descriptive text with way too many dispensable adjectives.
After long testing, I've learned how to cheese and model narrative in chatgpt, Gemini, Llama and a few others, but didn't get anything besides the sameness they make. That's why I'll continue to admire well-written stories and, most importantly, those who make them. I love your writing style and I'm eager to see what you'll pull up in the next games!
Exactly. A lot of people seem to get wrapped up in these grand pronouncements, good or bad about AI, but I tend toward the practical. If it ever reaches a point where it can actually make compelling stuff, maybe I'll re-evaluate (not in the sense that I'd use it, but as a horse beholding a model t), But for now, I'm not particularly worried. I continue to work. And thanks!