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From: Ruth Berger <rberger726@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Worrisome : Fiction Writ With AI Help "More Creative"
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26yh.0712 wrote:

> https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-stories-written-ai-creative-enjoyable.html
> 
> A study published in the journal Science 
Advances finds
> that AI enhances creativity by boosting the 
novelty of
> story ideas as well as the 'usefulness' of 
stories—their
> ability to engage the target audience and 
potential for
> publication. The paper is titled "Generative AI 
enhances
> individual creativity but reduces the 
collective diversity
> of novel content."
> 
> It finds that AI "professionalizes" stories, 
making them
> more enjoyable, more likely to have plot 
twists, better
> written and less boring.
> 
> In a study in which 300 participants were 
tasked with
> writing a short, eight-sentence 'micro story' 
for a target
> audience of young adults, researchers found 
that AI made
> those deemed less creative produce work that 
was up
> to 26.6% better written and 15.2% less boring.
> 
> . . .
> 
>    2030 ... And the Nobel Prize for Literature 
goes
>    to CHAT-5.75 ............
> 
>    So much for "humans" anymore, eh ?
> 
>    Tolkien didn't need AI to create an entire
>    universe ......

People who are bad at writing can benefit from 
machines who are mediocre at writing. Big 
surprise. I don't think either one of those 
groups is going to be winning any medals.