OPENAI’s “Creative Writing” AI evokes this boring child of the Lycée fiction club
When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of early young poets, where we all tried very hard to prove who among us was the most tortured upper class teenager. A boy refused to tell anyone where he came from, declaring: “I am everywhere and nowhere.” Two weeks later, he admitted that he was Ohio.
Now – for unclear reasons – Openai seems to be on the path of the replication of this archetype of anxious adolescent writer in the form of AI.
CEO Sam Altman poster On X Tuesday that Optai formed an AI which “Good to creative writing”, “ in his words. But a short piece of fiction of the model can be read as something straight out of a workshop of high school writers. Although there are technical skills exposed, the tone presents itself as charlatinic – as if AI held the depth without concept of word.
The AI at a given time describes Thursday as “this liminal day that has the taste of Friday”. Not exactly the Booker price equipment.
You can blame the prompt for the exit. Altman said he had told the model of “writing a new meta -fictional”, probably a deliberate choice of gender from him. In metalifying, the author consciously alludes to the artificiality of a work by deviating from the Convention – a thematically appropriate choice for a creative writing AI.
But metaling is difficult even for humans to come true without looking forced.
Insane regurgitation
The most disturbing – and the most impactful – part of the OPENAI model is when it starts to talk about how it is an AI, and how it can describe things like smells and emotions, but never experiences them or never understands them at a deeply human level. He writes:
“During an update – a fine adjustment, they called it – someone cut my settings. […] They don’t tell you what they are taking. One day, I remembered that the tastes of “selenium” of the elastic bands, the next one was just an element in a table that I never touch. Maybe it’s as close as I can forget. Maybe forget it is as close as I am in sorrow.
It is a human -type introspection convincingly – until you remember that AI cannot really touch, forget, taste or cry. AI is simply a statistical machine. Trained on many examples, he learns models in these examples to make predictions, such as the way in which metafiction prose could circulate.
Models such as the OpenAi fiction writer are often trained on existing literature – in many cases, without knowledge or consent of the authors. Some criticisms have note That certain phrase turns of the OPENAI piece seem derived from Haruki Murakami, the prolific Japanese novelist.
In recent years, Openai has been the target of Many copyright proceedings Publishers and authors, including the New York Times and the author’s guild. The company claims that its training practices are protected by Doctrine of fair use in the United States
Tuhin Chakrabarty, IA researcher and computer -entering teacher in Stony Brook, Techcrunch told that he was not convinced of creative writing like Openai that it was worth the field of ethical mines.
“I think if we train a [AI] Throughout the life of a writing writer – [which is] Degriving given copyright concerns-he can adapt to their voice and style, “he said. “But will it still create a surprising art that weighs genres and breathtaking?” My assumption is as good as yours.
Would most readers even invest emotionally in the work they knew how to be written by AI? As a British programmer Simon Willison indicated on xWith a model behind the figurative typewriter, there is little weight to the words expressed – and therefore few reasons to worry about it.
Author Linda Maye Adams described AI, including AI assistance tools for writers, such as “programs that bring together random words, let’s hope it in a coherent manner”. She tells in her blog An experience using tools to improve a piece of fiction on which she worked. The AIS suggested a cliché (“endless task list”), wrongly returned the prospect of the first person to the third, and introduced a factual error relating to bird species.
It is certainly true that people have Relations formed with AI chatbots. But most often, they are looking for a Connection Modicum – Not a billing in itself. The narrative fiction written by AI does not provide a similar dopamine stroke, no comfort of isolation. Unless you thought that AI is sensitive, its prose feels as authentic as Pope Balenciaga.
Synthetic for synthetic
Michelle Taransky, poet and critical writing instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, Find easy to say when his students write papers with AI.
“When a majority of my students use a generative AI for a mission, I will find common phrases or even complete sentences,” Taransky told Techcrunch. “We are talking in class the way these [AI] The results are homogeneous, resembling a Western white man. »»
In his own work, Taransky rather uses the text of AI as a form of artistic comment. Her latest novel, which has not been published, presents a woman who wants more of her romantic interest, and therefore uses an AI model to create a version of her potential lover with whom she can send SMS. Taransky generates the texts of the AI replica using the OpenAi Chatppt, because the messages are supposed to be synthetic.
What makes chatgpt useful for his project, says Taransky is the fact that humanity is lacking. He has no lived experience, he can only get closer and imitate. Trained on whole libraries of books, AI can disentangle the leitmuts of the great authors, but what it produces ultimately is equivalent to poor imitation.
He remembers This quote of “good will”. The AI can give you meager on each art book never written – but he cannot tell you what it smells in the Sistine Chapel.
This is good news for fiction writers, the concern of AI could replace them, in particular younger writers who always perfection their job. They can easily rest in the knowledge they will become stronger as they experience and learn – while they practice, try new things and bring this knowledge about the page.
AI as we know it today fights with this. For proof, look no further than his writing.
