I’ve seen a lot of advice telling young writers to “write to market,” and I think it’s a terrible idea. If you want to make a living writing things you don’t care about, you might as well get into marketing or copywriting.
Generative AI art isn’t going anywhere. It’s already too useful. But the commercial, legal, and ethical aspects are tangled in a massive knot. Where’s Alexander the Great when you need him?
How is rubber duck debugging similar to writing stories with an AI?
I’m an author. When I’m not writing fiction, I’m writing software. It seems both are under threat of an Artificial Intelligence takeover. Or are they? Do we need to worry about some bot taking all our jobs? Well, I decided to have a look.
Ever since I was a young man I’ve been consumed by the question: Why are some stories satisfying and others just feel like a string of events?