Hi all!
Lovely to meet again so soon for the IWSG! March already!
I love the optional question this month -
Have you "played" with AI to write those nasty synopses, or do you refuse to go that route? How do you feel about AI's impact on creative writing?
I'm not one to put my head in the sand when something new arrives on the scene. It seems AI has well and truly arrived and is here to stay. We've heard the stories of them plagiarising authors and so on, and that needs to be sorted. But there are helpful things about AI and I wrote a whole post HERE.
AI is still imperfect. I ask it to write a synopsis and it gives me a blurb. That's okay. So I ask it 'how do I write a synopsis' and it gives me all the correct points. So I haven't taken it a step further yet and given them the synopsis points they gave me then tell them to write a synopsis for this story...ha ha.
I've had some great blurbs written by AI but they needed a lot of editing and I mean A LOT! They like to write in quaint old-fashioned language.
So I always like to see examples. Here is ONE of the opening paras of a blurb AI wrote for my current WIP. What do you think of the language?
In the enchanting
city of Paris, where the aroma of freshly baked croissants fills the air,
Angelique Ravello has decided to revive her beloved cookery school after a
devastating loss. Determined to start anew and heal her wounded heart,
Angelique has sworn off men, focusing solely on her culinary passion.
The awesome co-hosts for the March 6 posting of the IWSG are Kristina Kelly, Miffie Seideman, Jean Davis, and Liza @ Middle Passages!
Thanks for coming by!
Denise
15 comments:
Yeah, it's a bit dry. It's trying, but it lacks emotion.
I don't mind AI..it helps me get started...and then I waste so much time tweaking, or just seeing what else the AI will come up with ;)
I have to edit Al heavily too. But it does save me time writing articles for work. And I'm guessing it'll be the same for things like a synopsis.
It's a good start but that blurb is a bit too flowery. Like you said, needs editing.
I suppose that flowery style does suit romance. Wouldn't work for some other genres. It doesn't scream out that an AI wrote it, but it is a bit pat and predictable. AI doesn't do human quirks, so I wouldn't read a whole book like that!
Yeah, dry and it's missing that grabby thing, ya know what I mean?
PS: My blog feed has changed.
Happy IWSD Day, Denise! The AI blurb definitely needs edition. It's too wordy and Hass too many cliches.
It looks as if AI has written a clear and concise summary of the story.
Okay, that synopsis has real merit. It's a starting point for sure and much better than the ones I get from my writers. I would take it and go from there, polishing and perfecting. But I'm surprised by how good it is.
I thought it was searching the web and coming back with text that didn't belong to it or completely made up data. I couldn't get permission to use it because it didn't own it.
If only I thought a little harder, it would have occurred to me that that suspicious text could as easily been mine.
Every month, I learn something new from the group. Yay, you!
I like the blurb, to my surprise. I think it is exactly what a blurb needs to be: short and to the point. Everything extra is stripped away.
Interesting how some people say: "dry", while others say: "flowery." Depends on the person, I guess. There is no one solution for everyone.
I haven't tried AI yet - no desire to at this point. Maybe one day :)
No desire to use AI. For me the pleasure is in the creative process so why outsource that part? It is becoming problematic, though. My daughter has been stressing over a team project this week, where a couple of members of her team (and several other teams in the class, it turns out) got caught using AI to write their parts of the assignment.
Hi Denise - thanks for the link to your October post - I visited belatedly, but I wasn't at my best last year. That description 'trying too hard' ... but really helpful to have the thoughts on AI from you ... cheers Hilary
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