No, A.I. Can’t Write Your Novel. Yet. (Volume One)

Thorny Nettles sometimes goes where other writers are too wise (or timid) to tread.  When OpenAI released ChatGPT-3 to the general public, others suggested creatives should stand together and resist the flood of new artificial intelligence tools for their craft.  But not Thorny.  No, Thorny got the bright idea, since AI can be taught, could she teach it to write a novel?  Friends shouted, “No!  Don’t do it!” and she tried it anyway.

There were valid concerns that AI would replace even the artists among us.  Writers worried they would lose their readers to computer-generated stories and graphic artists hoped they wouldn’t lose their income to cheap AI imitations of their engaging, insightful, thoroughly human works of art.  But was there a legitimate use of the new technology – one that didn’t violate ethical standards or amount to cheating? Thorny set out to prove it.
In this new series of books, Thorny shows that, no, AI may not take all our jobs, but it could help us do them better.  In No, AI Can’t Write Your Novel. Yet. Volume One, she explores AI’s current limitations, but also its potential value to writers, artists, and researchers.  She introduces the vocabulary and demonstrates the baseline of what AI does and does not do well, despite what AI itself claims.  Upcoming volumes will include basic writing methods, writing terminology, and the areas where we just can’t trust AI to tell us the truth – yet.