Hollywood studio Lionsgate has sold its entire back catalog of movies and TV shows to AI video startup Runway to train a new model on, which Lionsgate will then have access to. [WSJ, archive] Lions…
I am wondering if that would work for books. Most books are marketed as: best selling author brandon sanderson etc. So if a book doesn’t have an author on the cover, it would be hard to sell imo. For example, when I am looking for a book to read, I always check out the author and their other works.
Maybe it will be something like this: AI writer based on best selling author brandon sardersons.
But that is probably even worse than having no author on the cover.
We already have ghostwriters. Should be straightforward to conjure up an AI generated face who will look nicer than regular human authors and never say anything awkward, then have a textual genai system where you feed a few cheap ghostwritten works into one end and it regurgitates a franchise of arbitrary length, mimicking the style of someone who will have difficulty challenging the publisher in court. Bring in a new human ghostwriter every now and then to freshen up the training data if needs be. You might need to still employ some editors, but rebrand them as “prompt refiners” and give them shittier contracts.
Honestly, stuff like the MCU could be run like this already for all I know, and if it isn’t, I wonder how long it would take for someone to notice if they switched to this model?
I am wondering if that would work for books. Most books are marketed as: best selling author brandon sanderson etc. So if a book doesn’t have an author on the cover, it would be hard to sell imo. For example, when I am looking for a book to read, I always check out the author and their other works.
Maybe it will be something like this: AI writer based on best selling author brandon sardersons.
But that is probably even worse than having no author on the cover.
We already have ghostwriters. Should be straightforward to conjure up an AI generated face who will look nicer than regular human authors and never say anything awkward, then have a textual genai system where you feed a few cheap ghostwritten works into one end and it regurgitates a franchise of arbitrary length, mimicking the style of someone who will have difficulty challenging the publisher in court. Bring in a new human ghostwriter every now and then to freshen up the training data if needs be. You might need to still employ some editors, but rebrand them as “prompt refiners” and give them shittier contracts.
Honestly, stuff like the MCU could be run like this already for all I know, and if it isn’t, I wonder how long it would take for someone to notice if they switched to this model?
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