- Not to disagree with you, but I do think that there might be a way where it could work, which is to have a human with a vision/original idea, who uses an LLM to write a book.
OH FUCK ME
"Hey so I have this great idea."
"ORLY. Tell me about it."
"So there's a squirrel named Rocky and a moose named Bullwinkle. They have adventures! Including with Russian agents named Boris and Natasha."
"Okay, sounds fun. What are you going to do with it?"
"Do with it? You're the writer. Why don't you write it?"
- Every conversation every screenwriter has every time she goes home
_____________________________________________________
The execution IS the writing. The taking of the idea and turning it into entertainment IS the craft. Full stop. My first option was literally a director going "so what if people don't actually die, there's just these space monsters living on the satellites that eat our tumors" and I went ".... what if we went metaphorical with it" and that made me $5000. Well, that and sitting down for two months to bang out several drafts. That got me optioned. That got me represented. It wasn't the "here's a stupid idea" part it was the "here's a stupid idea made into entertainment" part and your argument, right here, to me, is that maybe a mediocre middle machine can do a better job than I can?
You know what's funny? I know a guy who "uses" AI in his writing. he mostly used to churn out 5,000 words of KindleSmut a day; he was making something like $30k a month tricking weirdos into paying 99 cents for bigfoot porn and dumb shit like that back before AI took it over. You'd think he could do the hell out of it now but nah. No market for AI kindlesmut, and he'd be the guy. No, what he uses it for is saying "AI, give me jokes" and he'll prompt it with things like "give me ten things Andrew Tate would say if he wanted to offend women but not so much that they're actually offended" and then he'll use one of them as a punch line for something he's writing. Notably?
It's the first fucking thing he hasn't finished.
Y'all persistin' in the conceit that while you don't understand the first fucking thing about how it works, clearly AI can do it better than a human... especially when it comes to the arts.