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  • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I think it’d be a good tool for a writer. I’d bet Bret Easton Ellis would have used AI to write large portions of American Psycho. All those passages like the ones about Huey Lewis and the News etc would be much easier to write with AI I think.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, you’re right in that case. But most novels and scripts don’t contain extended encyclopedia-like entries. Besides American Psycho, Moby Dick and House of Leaves are the only other ones I can recall off the top of my head.

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        I think for formulaic type books it could be used to flesh out a basic plot. Like, Tom Clancy has been dead for years, but he keeps bringing out books…