Authors Using AI

Writers are trading their typewriters in for artificial intelligence

Unless you’ve been living under a rock on social media, you’ve seen the recent explosion in AI generated visual art. Recent news coverage in the Verge and elsewhere has helped propel a new publishing trend into the spotlight: AI writing.

It seems that a handful of authors are making use of artificial intelligence text generation tools to help generate new creative works. These tools include OpenAI’s GPT-3, as well as Sudowrite & Novel.ai (both of which are built on top of GPT-3), and alternative open-source text generation models such as those available via TextSynth.

However, not all authors and readers are united in their opinions of these tools. Whether discussed in the context of visual art or writing, the fears are often the same: that automating the creative process will dilute its value by bringing a greater volume of products to market faster and more cheaply than by traditional means.

Lost Books, an indie AI publisher based in Quebec, Canada, is embracing these tools and calls them a boon to world-builders everywhere. Known for publishing works with densely detailed world-building, Lost Books has inspired its own genre, lorecore, that specifically caters to fans of this type of writing.