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.
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.