I work on a product for generating interactive fanfiction using an LLM, and I've put a lot of work into post-training to improve writing quality to match or exceed typical human levels.
I'm excited about this for adding images to those interactive stories.
It has nothing to do with circumventing the cost of artists or writers: regardless of cost, no one can put out a story and then rewrite it based on whatever idea pops into every reader's mind for their own personal main character.
It's a novel experience that only a "writer" that scales by paying for an inanimate object to crunch numbers can enable.
Similarly no artist can put out a piece of art for that story and then go and put out new art bespoke to every reader's newly written story.
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I think there's this weird obsession with framing these tools about being built to just replace current people doing similar things. Just speaking objectively: the market for replacing "cheeky expensive artists" would not justify building these tools.
The most interesting applications of this technology being able to do things that are simply not possible today even if you have all the money in the world.
And for the record, I'll be ecstatic for the day an AI can reach my level of competency in building software. I've been doing it since I was a child because I love it, it's the one skill I've ever been paid for, and I'd still be over the moon because it'd let me explore so many more ideas than I alone can ever hope to build.
> That is a great right, as long as it's not programmers.
You realize that almost weekly we have new AI models coming out that are better and better at programming? It just happened that the image generation is an easier problem than programming. But make no mistake, AI is coming for us too.
