Are stories written by AI good?

[Akkizakura]

The only problem is people asking for reviews on their stuff without disclosing it was written or assisted by AI.

Exactly.

Lies by omission are still lies. It's like people posting their stuff without disclosing it was a translation.

 

[naosu]

Without extensive editing and a human who knows what they are doing holding the helm firmly, guiding the story according to their vision, keeping it consistent, no. But at that point, instead of being AI written, it's more like AI assisted. Even then, very rarely can they be said to be good, as the human resorting to using AI is rarely good.

There should be a difference between 'AI written' and 'AI Assisted' like you say. Its a different process. Good point.

 

[beast_regards]

There are no stories written entirely by the "AI."

The vast majority of the stories people claim to be "written by AI" are in fact written conventionally, by the actual, living person, just in the distinct language, and then machine-translated to English where the implicit meaning behind some Eastern Asian language was lost in the mechanical transcriptions word for word. It feels off, but it isn't "AI", it just replaces words from one language with words from another.

The "AI", or "large language models" have one thing in common - they generate words, but don't understand the subject, meaning or content, only generate the most probable combination of letters without concern how is that going to be interpreted.

As such, "AI generated" content couldn't be longer than a few hundred words at best, as the "AI" (not being AI) doesn't understand what it is speaking about, and completely loses the point.

Such a story won't last long.

A machine translation, however, would. Because even the amateur writer with no skill understands the meaning of his or her story, it just sounds weird if the non-English speaking author wrote something in his native language, and the machine chewed it. In this case, storyline is preserved, it's just weird.

I've seen the AI generated chapters in the otherwise human written stories, and they lost the thread of its own story in the few paragraphs, something the human wouldn't do. This was professionally published, and I didn't doubt that the first chapters, or even 2/3 of the book, were genuinely human made, so I assume the author ran into deadline and wasn't able to finish the story in time, so it started to supplement it with "AI", but "AI" not being the author didn't know and couldn't know what was written before.

This generally doesn't happen on the Scribble Hub.

I looked on the supposedly "AI generated" story here, and that one comes in short, simple sentences, which indicate it was either inexperienced writer, was attempting to mimic the light novel simple sentence structure with one sentence paragraphs, or the entire work is a translation.

 

[Blingbee]

Tbh... as long as the story is interesting, engaging and meets your quality requirements how does it matter? I may saying something contreversial here I suppose - but it's not like you know the author either.

I guess we shouldn't judge a book by its cover?

 

[Fairemont]

Tbh... as long as the story is interesting, engaging and meets your quality requirements how does it matter? I may saying something contreversial here I suppose - but it's not like you know the author either.

I guess we shouldn't judge a book by its cover?

If it is generated by an LLM, then there is no author.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

There are no stories written entirely by the "AI."



As such, "AI generated" content couldn't be longer than a few hundred words at best, as the "AI" (not being AI) doesn't understand what it is speaking about, and completely loses the point.

This might be why I've heard there were some very good "Old School Style" game adventures created entirely by AI. Either the prompts included a story, or the person designing the module (as happened in some of the "classics") didn't worry about an overall story, just made sure there were a few hints of stories for the DM/GM/whatever to develop on their own if the players were interested. This seems like what it is currently geared for, actually.

 

[beast_regards]

This might be why I've heard there were some very good "Old School Style" game adventures created entirely by AI. Either the prompts included a story, or the person designing the module (as happened in some of the "classics") didn't worry about an overall story, just made sure there were a few hints of stories for the DM/GM/whatever to develop on their own if the players were interested. This seems like what it is currently geared for, actually.

There are the games which supposedly use the "AI" to handle the dialogue with the NPCs, but personally I didn't play any of those. Not because of the "AI" itself, but because it's not the style of games I am interested in. One I am aware of, but don't remember the title, is some sci-fi VR game where you are the lone person on the abandoned space station, and the "AI" handles the dialogue when you radio in and ask what the hell is going on

 

[CharlesEBrown]

There are the games which supposedly use the "AI" to handle the dialogue with the NPCs, but personally I didn't play any of those. Not because of the "AI" itself, but because it's not the style of games I am interested in. One I am aware of, but don't remember the title, is some sci-fi VR game where you are the lone person on the abandoned space station, and the "AI" handles the dialogue when you radio in and ask what the hell is going on

I'm talking tabletop games. A lot of people I've talked to have used AI to generate "filler" scenarios or starter adventures for campaigns. The AI/LLM builds the adventure, draws maps, suggests rewards and offers plot hooks but no actual plots unless the prompt included one.

 

[beast_regards]

I'm talking tabletop games. A lot of people I've talked to have used AI to generate "filler" scenarios or starter adventures for campaigns. The AI/LLM builds the adventure, draws maps, suggests rewards and offers plot hooks but no actual plots unless the prompt included one.

In D&D, the most of the encounters could be summarized as some ambush by goblins, kobolds, orcs and the like...

Vast majority of those are nothing more than the formality, with some miniscule XP to gain, others involve the DM trying to overwhelm the party with purposefully difficult scenario with traps, enemies that disengage after shooting, and others.

Leaving it up to computer to randomize may be ironically better choice

 

[CharlesEBrown]

In D&D, the most of the encounters could be summarized as some ambush by goblins, kobolds, orcs and the like...

Vast majority of those are nothing more than the formality, with some miniscule XP to gain, others involve the DM trying to overwhelm the party with purposefully difficult scenario with traps, enemies that disengage after shooting, and others.

Leaving it up to computer to randomize may be ironically better choice

The first people I know who successfully used AI were doing superhero games (the first one was a game I've never played but the second was for Champions ... which, if you don't have years of experience, may NEED a computer to run sometimes).

 

[beast_regards]

The first people I know who successfully used AI were doing superhero games (the first one was a game I've never played but the second was for Champions ... which, if you don't have years of experience, may NEED a computer to run sometimes).

There are flat screen built into tables to display your battle map at instead of drawing or printing it these days (even if I saw those only on photos) and that's certainly require to plug your laptop in. Many people do like keeping their character sheets in their computer too, rather than using pencil and eraser all the time, and that's require the laptop to bring to your session, or at least the tablet. Phone is too small of the screen to be practical for that.

 

[Forcalor]

Stories written only by AI can't be good. There must be a human input

 

[Edenc2708]

Stories written only by AI can't be good. There must be a human input

Yup that’s a malpractice in writing