And finally, a #StorytellingPSA:

There is no such thing as "I generated a new folktale with AI!"

(Yes, someone has actually tried to convince me AI will make me new folktales to tell.)

That might be a tale, but it's not "folk." Folktales are part of a community's oral tradition. They work because people have told and told and retold them. You can't plonk a chunck of text down and call it a folktale. Connection is the whole point.

/end rant

#AI #storytelling

Also, unpopular opinion:

Trad publishing's preference for easily marketable tropes makes the use of AI easier.

Multiple people I know have been told by publishers that they need to "describe the manuscript in three common tropes" or "as a combination of two popular books/movies" in order to be marketable. The more formulaic something is, the easier sell. They were told to tweak stories to fit into a trope.

This, #AI can do easily. But it's not even an AI problem. It's a marketing problem.

I hate it when I talk about AI "art" and how awful it is, and people respond with "Oh, but it will get so much better at it! It will be able to create amazing stuff, not just creepy images!"

I. Don't. Care.

I want stuff made by thinking, feeling, flawed humans. That's the whole point. I don't care how good AI is at "art". I don't care that "writing a good prompt is difficult". I really don't. The problem was never the quality to begin with.

#AI #art