The Rise of the Intelligent Authors

[Philosophy Now]

Lochlan Bloom wonders what writers will do when computers become better writers than humans.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/123/The_Rise_of_the_Intelligent_Authors

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I loved this article! I agree with every word it says. The only thing I would add is that books need not be written in a million different ways to suit the reader's expectations for entertainment, artistic and philosophical value (if any); the books ought to write themselves as the read reads the pages. One page at a time, and the next page or next paragraph only would need to be written once the neuro-impulse response from the reader has been measured and evaluated.

An excellent article.

Oh, there is another issue: the article predicted that no human will be able to make a living writing and publishing.

Well, that is actually the status quo for fiction- and novel writers. One in a million writers and prospective writers and published-writer-wannabes gets enough money to sustain his or her existence along with his or her family.

Did I say one in a million? Make it one in a hundred million. I suggest that in the English language there are no more than 10 to 70 novelists who make money enough to live on, and that is not a count at an instant in time, but a count over the last hundred years.

Okay, make it one in a billion, if you want to make a count of the present instant.

You have a better chance at making a living by buying ten lottery tickets than by writing a book and getting it published and getting sales volumes that will keep you and your family. That is, novel writing.

[surreptitious57]

I would read a book that was written by a machine but would it be as good as the real thing ?
So it would be interesting to see the difference between them and their human counterparts

[surreptitious57]

You have a better chance at making a living by buying ten lottery tickets than by writing a book and getting it published

95 per cent of novels are unpublished and are almost certainly never read by anyone other than the author themselves
Someone at a publisher will read the first chapter and if that is not stimulating enough then they do not read any more

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Right on.

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I would read a book that was written by a machine but would it be as good as the real thing ?
So it would be interesting to see the difference between them and their human counterparts

According to the article, they will be way better than human-written books; and they will be tailor-made for every different reader, since writing them will happen in an instant, very cheaply.

Readers will be measured up by unknown means what they like; much like today Amazon has a huge database on reading speed of parts of novels. They know where the readers (en bulk) slow down to savour every word, and where they speed up to skim because they are uninterested in that part.

[Eodnhoj7]

Lochlan Bloom wonders what writers will do when computers become better writers than humans.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/123/Th ... nt_Authors

Now authors will have to write books about the difficulty of being authors...