Desiderius Price

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Alright, sharing this from my story ideas/notes scratchpad: A pastor giving a children's sermon on vestments asks, "Why do you think I wear this collar?" One kid answered, "Because it kills ticks and fleas up to 30 days?"

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Nurse’s cabin. (ie, Jeff’s getting medical treatment)

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While I don’t think we’ll go 100% AI …. yet. I’d expect to see AI creeping in with fake actors for those “extras”. Even if the AI costs the same, less problematic, less risk to the schedule, than dealing with the hassles of “people” As to deep faking sexual situations…. yeah, legal or not, might not be contained to “adult” actors being faked in either.

Heard foxnews recently let go one artificial air-head…

Even before I give a manuscript to a reader/editor, I want the thing to be as good as I possibly get it. To have an AI that puts red squiggly marks beneath questionable things… it draws my attention, and so long as I can tell it to “ignore”, I’m fine with that level of AI. So, having AI assisting in showing where there might be a problem, that I should double check, that’s fine to me. More comprehensive the AI, the better...at this stage. Might it eventually replace the need for an editor in all but the most serious of publications? Well, I’m not hiring out an editor for what are ... web postings. As AI improves, how “good enough” will it be before it can handle … say magazine or cheap-romance level of editing? Ditto for the writing… not saying AI will be better, but when will it be “good enough” for somebody more interested in quantity over quality, but still claim it as their own?

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Though I hadn’t explicitly stated it, technically these kids are under the eaves of the main (& only) lodge on this small camp, having watched one of the adults enter a cabin nearby, presumably distracted; kids are about to deliberately misbehave

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Something I have to watch out too, seeing that on my current story I’m reworking. This is a spot where AI could be useful, help you assess “linguistic weight” of the dialogue as you type along and/or revise For posthumous… first case I thought of is when an actor dies mid-production, might be able to fill in missing pieces, release the movie. Depends on the amount needing deepfake, obviously.

I tried grammatically perfect dialogue – it sucks and tends to be overly wordy, unrealistic. Concur that human editors will remain best, the gold standard, for years to come. I’m thinking about sleazy/cheap self-pubs or similar trying to cut corners. The issue is when about everybody starts doing it, degrading the industry as a whole. When you apply this cost-cutting mentality to any other industry (appliances, tools, whatever), the middle tier gets gutted because the white box products are good enough for 90% of the market; the upper tier stratifies, before they too, are forced (due to finances) to use those white-box products. All that’s left are the artisans with $5k tables, or the IKEA (& clones) with the $100 tables.

I’ve not gone through the editorial process, does seem that AI can definitely assist as you identify. I’m guessing it’ll make further inroads into the process… full takeover? Maybe, maybe not. With time, I suspect that even the better-with-human traits will be bundled into an AI, and the self-pubs will lean on that. After all, AI doesn’t have to do it better, simply has to do it cheaper. Mice needed the sentience and fjords for the ultimate question AI … which of course was “what’s six times nine?” (Which is 42 in base-13.)