Martin,
Would you buy a book by an advanced version of ChatGPT?
A number of people already do. Apparently some crappy AI-written books have been sold on Amazon for several years. For a human author, selling a dozen copies is incredibly bad. For an AI... it can crank out a dozen titles a minute. Sell a dozen of each, and you've got a damn fine income.
Imagine an author signing at a local bookshop. There is no human being there, just a laptop with a camera and speaker that can talk to you.
I'm unlikely to ever get Mark Twain or HP Lovecraft to sign any of my books, but I still read their stuff.
Speaking broadly as someone with an arts background as well, creativity is a human endeavor,
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Yeah, but no.
a message from the artist to you and anyone else that views a work. This creates a type of bond that is natural and human. This cannot occur when the "writer" is a device.
And you know this for certainty *how*? If you found a piece of art that "spoke to you," that you loved to your core, and only afterwards found out it was written by an AI or painted by a chimp, would you stop loving it?
Thirty years ago I took a college art class. The teacher was one of those rare things... an art teacher who didn't have his head up his keister. In a section on art history, we covered abstract art. I hate that crap, but of course the artsy types got off on it. Teacher ran a slide show of various bits of abstract art and had the students describe each of them, what they felt, what they were about, blah, blah, blah. He flipped the slide to a new one and I laughed out loud and looked at him; he knew I was an engineer and just gave me a little smile and shook his head, indicating I should keeo my trap shut. He got the kids going on about the art, and they dug it... blatherings about the use of "negative space" and what the artists intentions were and how it was all about anger or lust or whatever the hell ooh, ahh, just pure genius.
It was a polarized microphotograph of a thin crystal, something like this:
The "artist" was the cold, unfeeling forces of nature and the laws of physics. If a bunch of art students can bond with *that,* then I have no doubt that AI can produce art of *any* kind that a whole lot of people will be happy to stick on their walls or TVs.