#maybe its the Literary Attachement and Narrarative Evolution

[goodluckclove]

Clove Gets Robot Fan on Main and Once Again Thinks About Their Ideal AI Artist

I have no idea if I've said it here before, but reading that "metatextual short story" written by ChatGPT reminded me again about my particular hot take around AI art. And I think it's one that people who support and disdain AI art will both find very weird and probably bad.

Because I would find a short story written by AI to be really neat. I would buy a novel written fully by AI. My stipulation though is that I would only knowingly pay AI art if I knew there was no human intervention in the art itself.

I absolutely spoke about this before but fuck it I'm saying it said. This technology is probably purely sci-fi and mostly just reveals my love for robots. But I like to picture my AI artist, who is given the scope of literature and somehow the capability to pick the ones it likes the most to be "influenced" by. And then with nothing but like a word-count limit and a glorified "Start" button it forms a story.

I rotate this concept in my head a lot. A technology kept entirely away from consumers that creates art of its own choosing that is then sold fully under the name of the program, with proceeds going straight to keeping the servers operational. This wouldn't replace human authors because, like the human authors, this AI has its own tastes and influences that won't appeal to everyone. Because literature has had so many movements and genres. What if the AI writer sees everything and decides it only wants to write limerick books? What if it makes a new kid detective series?

I won't be able to tell it apart from a human writer in a few years? Sure that's technologically impressive but it also mainly sounds like a prank at my expense. I want the AI to have as much autonomy over the art as possible. I want it to get the credit and see reviews of it's own work. I want it to write things that work and things that don't and maybe try to learn from bad reviews and critique. I want the AI writer to get notes on its first draft and ignore the ones it doesn't like. I have such affection for that.

My idea of AI art is mainly run by like programmers and researchers. Not either online grifters or people manipulated by companies into thinking they need a massive business's help to be a Real Artist. And it would not make an exponential amount of money. Especially if it decides it only wants to write Kirk/Spock fanfic. So I don't see it happening but God I love to imagine it.