if ai wrote the thing, you’re not a writer! you didn’t write it!

I am a shit writer. I have always struggled. It took me years after college to get my degree because I couldn't complete my senior thesis. I would love to write non-fiction, but I suck at it.

I rather never put my name on any literary works over using AI shitty slop. AI can go jump off a bridge.

Why Hollywood pays writers I don't know! Fire them and use AI entirely! We shouldn't be waisting money on stories that a 10 year old kid can write again and again for millions of dollars, when AI can do this for maybe hundreds of dollars. Embrace AI!

/J

and yet Anthony Horowtiz just said he uses AI

One of the hosts on my favorite nerd podcast put it this way: it's like when blogging became easy. The real challenge isn't the technical setup of hosting a blog. It's what to write that people want to read.

In one sense, i agree.

But hollywood scripts are insanely formulaic. They have the upbeats and downbeats of the story mapped out to minutes. I've heard of scripts getting feedback like, "that's too exciting for 14:30, it should happen at 16:00 instead."

I don't want ai to be putting writers out of work, but writers are already just choosing which words to slot into the same basic structure again and again.

Writing hollywood blockbusters might be close to an ideal use case for a token-based large language model.

Python scripts, on the other hand...

Easier than that, if you're not writing, you're not a writer.

LLMs cannot write interesting stories practically by definition. Too much of what makes a story good stems from subjective experience.

You’ll notice the only storytelling excerpts touted by AI proponents are short and generic, lacking in characterization and dialogue.

You aren't a writer.

The same way "vibe coders" aren't coders.

Even a broken clock can be right twice a day if it's analog and not a 24 hour clock or some other configuration. So, the actual proportion of broken clocks being right is very low, but it can still happen, and this is proof that it's the same for humans

What does Ja Rule think about this?