Jennifer Lepp was writing the latest iteration of her series, Bring Your Beach Owl, when heard about this AI. As seen, he promised to write texts for you with an exquisite structure and style. As if it were a professional author of flesh and blood. The name of this artificial intelligence is sudowriteand Lepp had no choice but to insist to its developers until they let her into the beta of the program.
Although Lepp already had 80% of the story developed, had three days to complete the remaining 20%. Added to this, you would also have to edit it, format it, promote it and upload it to the Amazon Kindle platform. All in just a couple of days.
Was Lepp successful in testing the program? And wow yes! The AI not only recognized the names of its characters, but also their physical characteristics. In addition, it was able to detect the time in which the portrayed scene took place, and also the race of the characters (in the case of Nutmeg, Lepp’s character, a pixie redhead).
Just by entering a small description, Sudowrite is capable of developing a complete history. But it is not only limited to recreating a scene. This AI brings depth by adding specific details about each of the objects and characters in the scene, so your stories will never feel flat.
To get her access to Sudowrite, Jennifer Lepp tells TheVerge which had to upset its developers on Twitter. Amit Gupta and James Yu, who are also science fiction authors, were the ones who created this tool. Using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language modelgave the world and people like Jennifer Lepp an AI capable of doing what was thought impossible: rivaling human creativity.
Of course, it all depends on what you use it for. According to Lepp, Sudowrite’s AI isn’t exactly for copying and pasting chunks of text. Rather, it allows you to find inspiration when detailing certain scenes and improving others. Consequently, you can have a product in a shorter working time.
This is one of the many tactics thousands of freelancers have to resort to. Lepp’s job requires a new book every 9 weeks.. Books that you not only have to write, but also edit, promote and publish.
AI is not your enemy, it is the greatest tool that has ever existed
It is clear that, at this point in the article, many will have taken a defensive stance against the use of these types of tools. After all, jobs like that done by authors and illustrators have been sold to us as almost divine activities. Something that only a few enlightened ones with superior capabilities can do.
However, nothing is further from reality. It is an occupation like any other. Not everyone writes to be the next Tolkien, just as not everyone paints to be the next Picasso. Some simply they try to survive in a world that demands more and more resources with each passing day.
Therefore, assistance from an AI comes as a blessing. Does it completely replace human labor? Not at all. Language models such as GPT-3 have a clear limitation, and that is to maintain cohesion in all the text they generate. So much so that, without the intervention of human creativity, they could not create a complex and rich story.
Refusing to use AI as another work tool, just to maintain “higher morals”, is not much better than those who refused to use the first typewriters for preferring manual writing. Or those who disdained computers and the Internet, in favor of using typewriters and research in huge books. These tools are made to make our lives easier. Of course, in the end you will have the last decision.