That's a scary notion: what happens when the money claiming that AI writing is good, surpasses the one claiming otherwise?
replyI think that's been the case for a while. We get
reply- Countless poorly-written AI books released
- Many, many articles saying that people should stop complaining and AI writing is just as good
Author gives an example with a bidding war and multimillion dollar advance.
replyWhich is an excellent example of AI writing being potentially lucrative, but not good. Also note that that is its own counter-example: it wasn't published, and the advance was retracted.
reply> it wasn't published, and the advance was retracted.
replyNot because they didn't think the writing was high quality. The quality of the writing is what led to the bidding war. The advance was retracted because the publisher can't get exclusivity if copyright protections don't hold due to the novel being AI generated.
Bidding wars are caused by all kinds of things, and quality is only one of them. It's the only one that gets said in marketing material though.
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