With the recent announcement of the Max Harry Potter series, I was wondering, assuming there are high quality AI-generated fanfic audiobooks/movies by then. Would you be more excited about the Max Harry Potter series or the AI generated stuff?
Personally, I’m much more excited about AI-generated fanfic audiobooks/movies. I already listen mostly to AI-generated audiobooks made from fanfiction, which is not very good yet, but when it can make consistent art and use different voices, it’s going to be really exciting. At the rate at which AI is advancing, I give it 5 years tops to do some animations as good as current movie quality, but I think we are going to have very good AI-illustrated and dramatized audiobooks in a couple of years.
I’m not particularly enthusiastic about the show, but to compete with it, AI-generated stuff will need to fix the hallucination problem that current models have. They can’t produce long form, coherent writing yet.
I’m not really talking about writing, only making adaptations of current fanfiction. I agree that making long stories is going to be difficult. Maybe it can produce good one-shots though. I’m pretty sure there are already plenty on AO3, but I haven’t checked them out.
Yeah, I haven’t kept up with the latest stuff. I imagine they will eventually solve it.
My problem with AI Generated Fiction is my problem with most fanfiction – after coming on twenty years since the end of the series (Deathly Hallows came out in 2007) there are very few original fanfiction ideas left, and most of it is (I am sad to say) knock off copies off stuff that already exists.
And given that AI cannot write original stuff because it doesn’t have the ability to create, just copy and reorganise and regurgitate, then it will just reproduce what exists.
There are very few original fanfics being produced now and AI isn’t going to help with that.
And given that AI cannot write original stuff because it doesn’t have the ability to create, just copy and reorganise and regurgitate, then it will just reproduce what exists.
AI can create stories based on your ideas so all you have to do is come up with an original prompt. Of course right now the quality and length of the story will be pretty bad but that will improve quickly.
So the person has to come up with the original idea – the creative part – and the AI just takes that idea and writes based on that?
To me that’s not creativity. That is taking someone’s idea (the creative part) and then taking existing works and modifying them based around that.
Now if you just say “write me an original Harry Potter story” and it comes up with an original fanfiction plot… that would be creative.
But if you have some random people write original prompts and then ask the AI to do the same, the AI is going to be better than the majority of people. That’s why AI is more creative than the average person; it is as creative as the top 1% of humans. The same way you give an idea, you can just ask the AI to come up with ideas and then ask it to write the plot for the one you like. Or you can directly ask it to write an original Harry Potter plot or a very short story, and it will come up with something more original than what 99% of people can write.
