I am all for supporting local artists and I feel that “handcrafted in XXX” products make great souvenirs when you’re connected to those places. Still, if some AI hallucinated me a perfect novel for my interests, or generated something I couldnt tell was manufactured or created by a master, I would happily enjoy it.
“How can I tell if this is slop so I can know to hate it” sounds stupid to me: good is good. When it comes to art / food / products, I want the best experience for ME. If I want human connectedness, then I’ll go interact with a human directly.
I can do without wasted water, power, and money, but in the abstract it seems to bother everyone on Lemmy to enjoy something a person didn’t make. I don’t have that hang-up.
Haven’t read one yet. I’m suggesting it’s not precluded on the merits.
Edit: or I could probably equivalently ask you “Name one you’ve read that you didn’t like” and get the same answer.
I haven’t even heard of one. Do you not think if it was a realistic potential, one of the two of us would have some kind of practical experience by this point? I think we can preclude it at the current state of technology.
Moreover, I think we can preclude it not just on empirical grounds but also theoretical ones. Fiction is meaningful to us because it communicates something. No one is interested in hearing their friends’ pointless dreams every morning. Generative agents cannot communicate because they presently do not have a point of view, a theory of self, and cannot have experiences; they have nothing they can meaningfully communicate. A novel crafted for you by a glorified Markov chain can at most only ever be a mirror to see yourself. Which can be interesting and have merit, but it’s a totally different thing that just happens to be (potentially) novel-shaped, it’s not a novel.