I don’t understand why they are scared. Even though the writing style can be copied easily the content, creativity and structure of the story is a whole other thing. It will never match 1:1.
They are scared for the future, not the present. And considering the growth speed, it’s a warranted fear
The problem on why so in its current state won’t match the human creativity is that the generative models aren’t really generative, more like compilational. They can’t generate anything special, they can’t create new genre, artstyle, etc. It would require a GAI to do that, and we are one of even a few revolutions apart from it.
I don’t see anything hurting individual human creativity long-term. ‘Good’ stuff will sell, no matter if you use AI or not. And it’s a choice, not an obligation, to use it.
If people feel like they are forced to use it because of its higher output, it’s not a problem of AI, but of capitalism.
It is likely that we will reach a point where these ML things will recognise patterns across creative works, see what sell and use them to make similar stories using those same patterns.
Which is clear they will sell more since they will be cheaper, faster to make thus flooding the market with engaging-but-unoriginal stories.
Imagine: a GOT in space, a GOT in fantasy, a mix between Star Wars and GOT, and so on. And they will always sell cause GoT is engaging, but none will be original but a soulless copy of the original GoT (for which Martin won’t see a buck).
Tbf, i think it would be better to ban this kind of “AI” - like ChatGPT, or the ones for the art et similia - from “producing” creative work - at least creative work to be sold - but capitalism gotta capitalise I guess.
EDIT: to be fair right now the main concern is about copyrighted creative work, but probably it’s the easier to ascertain if it’s been copied or not: take for example programming code, there are very few ways to know if a copyrighted code has been used and it will probably show how copyright is SO dumb and fallacious for technical and whatnot fields
