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If AI shapes the future, will there ever be a piece of literature that is entirely human?

  • 1.  If AI shapes the future, will there ever be a piece of literature that is entirely human?

    Posted Fri February 28, 2025 01:55 PM

    Random thought for today: If AI shapes the future, will there ever be a piece of literature that is entirely human? How would we verify its authenticity? When

    future generations look back, how will our legacy be recorded? And what does it mean if history is written without human emotion?



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    Thomas Mertens
    Medford, Wi U.S.A (Summer)
    Florida (Winter) U.S.A.
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  • 2.  RE: If AI shapes the future, will there ever be a piece of literature that is entirely human?

    Posted Sat March 01, 2025 10:52 AM

    @Thomas (Tom) Mertens from a purely practical standpoint, or a technical standpoint, the interesting challenge is going to be governance and verification and provenance issues - assuming the ethical stance is that AI tools serve as collaborators, not replacements, for human creativity versus AI creativity (not taking a position, just pointing out the facts) and assuming that human creation has more subjective depth or "soul" in writing or music or art for example.  And then practical tech for provenance standards to distinguish human-AI contributions.  The way to verify would be immutable ledgers like hyperledger for provenance.



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    Weiyee In
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    Protego Trust Bank
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  • 3.  RE: If AI shapes the future, will there ever be a piece of literature that is entirely human?

    Posted Mon March 03, 2025 08:55 PM

    In terms or production, there's nothing to stop someone writing a book longhand, using a typewriter, or word processors with the advent of AI.  You don't have to use it. It probably won't be as cost effective, but then most books these days are labors of love. The number that actually make a decent profit are becoming vanishingly small and the market is getting flooded as AI makes writing books easier, increasing the number of authors (and reducing the number of readers).

    It's also worth noting that, at the moment, AI writes book in short chunks (shorter than a chapter) and a lot of human editing is needed to blend them together. Yes, you can get AI to write short stories, but they aren't very good ones.  Hybrid books are starting to appear, with humans guiding and curating the story the AI writes, rather than writing a story and having the AI help them with it.  The main problem with the AI is that it tends to be mired in stereo types and cliches - these being the most common phrases and concepts int he data it's trained on.  Getting AI to be creative in its writing can be quite difficult, and the current generations of LLMs aren't AGI's - even if they are good enough at writing to fool us some of the time.

    Taking a broader view, how much writing to day is free from the influence of mobile phones, cars, ship etc... ? Every new technology changes the people who use it, which in turn changes the literature they produce, so everyone writing future literature will be influenced by their knowledge of the existence of AI - whether or not it shows in their writing is another matter.  But this affects literature produced within the last 70 years or so, which has been influenced by the potential existence of AI.  The reality is, at the moment, somewhat disappointing...



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    Mik Clarke
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