Warning: if you use tools like Grammarly, you need to check the output.

[DireBadger]

I think you might have nailed something here. The A.I. bubble is most certainly going to burst, with what you said, because people will not be able to keep up with it. They'll need stronger, faster computers, and won't be able to afford them. No wonder A.I. stocks are being watched like hawks right now.

well, I have run the numbers, and if the rate of hardware advancement continues, sub-1000 dollar computers should be able to afford 24 gigs of 'high-speed' (video) memory within the next 2 years.

What that means, in a very real way, is that the 'AI junk' for a prolific art producer, should outperform (in a specific, limited way) the 'mass market' producers in about 2 or 3 years.

What THAT means is that a single user, with a good story, should be able to perform ALL the parts of mass media with minimal investment. The true 'creation' will still be limited to a single talented artist (because AI creativity will always suck), but the distribution part? Let's just say Disney, Sony, Warner, and Paramount are about to be hit with the same hammer that Mass Market paperbacks, comic book companies, and even music companies are being hit with. Namely, their irrelevance.

If one guy with a decent computer can basically replace ALL the parts of a studio like Disney and produce something like... say... Robert Heinlein's 'Friday' without the need for actors, unions, pro music, or ANYTHING outside of a decent story... or if she has a small team to handle each of those pieces with AI assistance, you are looking at a new gig economy with minimal cost. Yes, 90% of everything will still be crap (it always has been), but that takes the 'big studios' out of the creativity loop. See Del Rey and Baen Books for examples.

Even today, at a place like Scribblehub, you can find endless entertainment by talented but unknown artists... imagine what it will be like when you can find the same thing for visual entertainment? When Bob Iger suddenly realizes that the income stream he has crapped on for twenty years has become irrelevant?

They know their lifespan is limited, and they are just trying to pry as much money out of it as they can before they go the way of CD distributors. My Response? "Okay, Boomer." Will it interfere with the money chain of 'big' writers? absolutely, but us high-quality little guys will be the new money token dispensers.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

If one guy with a decent computer can basically replace ALL the parts of a studio like Disney and produce something like... say... Robert Heinlein's 'Friday' without the need for actors, unions, pro music, or ANYTHING outside of a decent story... or if she has a small team to handle each of those pieces with AI assistance, you are looking at a new gig economy with minimal cost. Yes, 90% of everything will still be crap (it always has been), but that takes the 'big studios' out of the creativity loop. See Del Rey and Baen Books for examples.

I've mentioned I once got into a discussion with one of the developers for Microsoft's abandoned AI project (they leased the tech for CoPilot from ChatGPT when CGPT beat them to market and fired 90% of the department). He is running a movie studio - except when they feel the need to hire real actors, they have a staff of five people who can churn out a half-hour film in about a month with high-end current hardware and AI software. Last I heard, he planned to have a full length film by the end of next year, and was already making some commercials and short films for local groups just to pay the bills.

 

[Xeoz]

Wait, is it really that shit now? I've been using the extension ver since 2020. Well, it has issues since then, but was it worse now? I thought it's still pretty much the same. Also, what three hours? Grammarly can correct that stuff now?

 

[ElijahRyne]

A lot of people say Grammarly (and similar programs) is a very useful tool, and maybe it still is. But over the last two years, since they started to rely more and more on AI, its quality has gone downhill.

I'm not going to tell you not to use it at all. But if you do, you need to read over your text again afterwards - maybe not to check it for spelling or grammatical errors, but instead, for logical inconsistencies and plot holes.

All modern "AI" hallucinates. The really high-end stuff hides it better, but the free and cheap tools don't. And so they will introduce stupid, blatant errors into your stories - one I read earlier today described a character running from 5:50 am to 7:30 am, and repeatedly called this "three hours." I commented to check with the author, and sure enough, they used Grammarly.

My first suspicion was actually that the whole work was just AI-generated - there were a few other blatant errors like this that didn't look like the kinds of errors human authors make.

So if you do use AI tools like these, just be careful to double-check and reread before posting. Just because they might find some genuine mistakes of yours doesn't mean they won't make their own.

Yes, these are tools, you must supervise and check their output else-wise there will be moments where you cut out the important details and interesting flourishes that you put in.