We really aren't that far out from being able to tell AI something like "Write me a ~500 page novel set in XX century with a flawed anti-hero protagonist. Use the following books and films for reference:..." and getting something of the same quality as your average human writer in response.
That's exactly what a character famous for his writing ability does in Philip K Dicks Penultimate Truth. Dick was prescient. It's not even a major plot point, just a bit of world building.
The only thing stopping this from happening right now is that the LLM tools basically don't have the memory capacity to keep continuity in a large scale. You can get a few pages out of the thing then it tends to start confusing elements.
But if you were writing a book and you outlined 50 chapters/scenes of ~5-10 pages each, you can easily keep the thing on-track for for duration of the scene and then end the chapter.
Most books seem like they could be written by an AI trained on Harry Potter and LOTR.
We really aren't that far out from being able to tell AI something like "Write me a ~500 page novel set in XX century with a flawed anti-hero protagonist. Use the following books and films for reference:..." and getting something of the same quality as your average human writer in response.
That's exactly what a character famous for his writing ability does in Philip K Dicks Penultimate Truth. Dick was prescient. It's not even a major plot point, just a bit of world building.
The only thing stopping this from happening right now is that the LLM tools basically don't have the memory capacity to keep continuity in a large scale. You can get a few pages out of the thing then it tends to start confusing elements.
But if you were writing a book and you outlined 50 chapters/scenes of ~5-10 pages each, you can easily keep the thing on-track for for duration of the scene and then end the chapter.
Voila, book.