No thanks to the Shein-ification of fiction. But fully expect to be labeling future books as haute auteur soon to distinguish them from Temu text quislings...
Please no AI! If every author I loved and all the ones I'm yet to discover downed pens/keyboards/quills tomorrow and never wrote another word, I'd simply re-read all the books I've already bought. And maybe even catch up with the ones I've bought but not yet read! (Note: any authors in the middle of a series aren't allowed to down tools in this hypothetical scenario of mine until they've brought everything to a suitable conclusion and tied up the messy loose ends. Thems the rules.)
In other words, I'd rather read one excellent book by you every one, two or three years than one by AI that's been vomited out every day, week or month. Quality over quantity. Even if I lived forever, life would still be too short to read crap.
Please never stop doing exactly what you do. Your quality art is oxygen, and we will always crave and clock the real.
I write book indexes, and take small comfort that those of the machines, so far, have basically no utility, let alone concept subtlety. But if the publishers just want to check a box....
I'm a writer, on a very small scale. I think writing novels as a full time job might only be a thing in the future for AI fans/slaves, but I think it's only been possible as a full time career for humans using their brains, not artificial tools, for the past few decades. Before that novelists paid the bills with day jobs, and those days will return.
The cheese analogy sounds about right. But just as there are people who choose only to buy the fake cheese, there are also people who choose the real cheese because they're concerned about how it's made and what it does to their bodies (for books - what it does for their minds.) And just as we are more aware now than in the 70s about how bad highly processed food is for our bodies, we will soon realise how bad artificial art is for our minds and souls.
No thanks to the Shein-ification of fiction. But fully expect to be labeling future books as haute auteur soon to distinguish them from Temu text quislings...
Please no AI! If every author I loved and all the ones I'm yet to discover downed pens/keyboards/quills tomorrow and never wrote another word, I'd simply re-read all the books I've already bought. And maybe even catch up with the ones I've bought but not yet read! (Note: any authors in the middle of a series aren't allowed to down tools in this hypothetical scenario of mine until they've brought everything to a suitable conclusion and tied up the messy loose ends. Thems the rules.)
In other words, I'd rather read one excellent book by you every one, two or three years than one by AI that's been vomited out every day, week or month. Quality over quantity. Even if I lived forever, life would still be too short to read crap.
Please never stop doing exactly what you do. Your quality art is oxygen, and we will always crave and clock the real.
I write book indexes, and take small comfort that those of the machines, so far, have basically no utility, let alone concept subtlety. But if the publishers just want to check a box....
I'm a writer, on a very small scale. I think writing novels as a full time job might only be a thing in the future for AI fans/slaves, but I think it's only been possible as a full time career for humans using their brains, not artificial tools, for the past few decades. Before that novelists paid the bills with day jobs, and those days will return.
The cheese analogy sounds about right. But just as there are people who choose only to buy the fake cheese, there are also people who choose the real cheese because they're concerned about how it's made and what it does to their bodies (for books - what it does for their minds.) And just as we are more aware now than in the 70s about how bad highly processed food is for our bodies, we will soon realise how bad artificial art is for our minds and souls.