I again applaud your leadership in this regard. I do fear however that you are so far out in front of Substack culture in general that you may struggle to find an audience. But, maybe lots of folks will show up to yell at you. :-)
Offering abbreviated snippets of the fiction you're producing seems a good idea, as it makes this experiment more accessible to those who aren't fiction fans.
You ask, "What does this mean for the future of creativity?"
While not claiming to know really, it seems we're being pushed in the direction of a higher order of thinking. Just writing a collection of pleasing words will no longer cut it, and we will instead have to come up with truly interesting novel ideas to get attention. While so many claim AI is "lazy", the opposite will likely prove truer over time. Coming up with truly interesting novel ideas is far from easy.
My other guess is that text only content will increasingly struggle for attention. I feel visitors will demand, and AI will provide, presentations which are much more mixed media, with text being just one of the elements.
When I'm creating AI fiction, that's what interests me the most. How can I bring this story alive in more ways? How can I communicate on more channels at the same time, to a greater diversity of consumers? How many different hooks can be created within the presentation?
Yeah I think you make an interesting point about text-only, as opposed to more interactive, forms of storytelling. Perhaps I’ll start using the first few paragraphs of stories the AI generates to prompt DALL*E to generate a complementary graphic.
Another option could be to partner with someone(s) who are interested in doing the image work, the video work, the audio work and so on. I suppose it depends on how far in to your experiment you wish to go. Will follow with interest.
I again applaud your leadership in this regard. I do fear however that you are so far out in front of Substack culture in general that you may struggle to find an audience. But, maybe lots of folks will show up to yell at you. :-)
Offering abbreviated snippets of the fiction you're producing seems a good idea, as it makes this experiment more accessible to those who aren't fiction fans.
You ask, "What does this mean for the future of creativity?"
While not claiming to know really, it seems we're being pushed in the direction of a higher order of thinking. Just writing a collection of pleasing words will no longer cut it, and we will instead have to come up with truly interesting novel ideas to get attention. While so many claim AI is "lazy", the opposite will likely prove truer over time. Coming up with truly interesting novel ideas is far from easy.
My other guess is that text only content will increasingly struggle for attention. I feel visitors will demand, and AI will provide, presentations which are much more mixed media, with text being just one of the elements.
When I'm creating AI fiction, that's what interests me the most. How can I bring this story alive in more ways? How can I communicate on more channels at the same time, to a greater diversity of consumers? How many different hooks can be created within the presentation?
Yeah I think you make an interesting point about text-only, as opposed to more interactive, forms of storytelling. Perhaps I’ll start using the first few paragraphs of stories the AI generates to prompt DALL*E to generate a complementary graphic.
Another option could be to partner with someone(s) who are interested in doing the image work, the video work, the audio work and so on. I suppose it depends on how far in to your experiment you wish to go. Will follow with interest.