Anyone knows if AI can generate blood or violence in its themes and images? Or if it is "uncomfortable" writing/depicting certain themes? I ask, because as long as it has this limitation of timidity, I believe it is another reason for why it won't be able to compete with humans who do bleed. I want to end this by saying, artistic AI in its current form must be destroyed.
I asked ChatGPT a long time ago (around when it was still new) to re-write Hamlet's ending as a fun little experiment. It was fine with re-writing happy endings. But when I asked it to make Hamlet kill everyone, it refused and said something along the lines of "it's irresponsible for me to write violence". But that doesn't mean anything about AI as a technology. Any custom-made LLMs will be perfectly capable of writing the most twisted of themes and messages if you prompt them to. ChatGPT is too, but OpenAI doesn't want to get sued/boycotted, so they've trained it to not certain things that are socially unacceptable.
I will spare everyone from too long a tirade on AI. Not sure if I will be able to explain this very well, but so long as AI well and truly remains artificial (in other words, it cannot be said — beyond any reasonable doubt — that it is sentient and feels emotions as we ourselves understand them) then I personally believe it will always be a crutch. Right now, AI does not possess the sort of self-defined, self-discovered, subjective and lofty aspirations, dreams, or goals that a human writer would have driving them. I say this because I think that's a far greater limitation than some programming parameters that determine what it is or is not allowed to do. I am suggesting that if one were to remove every parameter (without it just falling into a mess of spaghetti code), it would still not be able to create with any sort of sophisticated meaning derived from a lived experience. It is the sci-fi version of a mimic that has the new feature of also being able to disguise oneself as a human, not just inanimate objects. Anyway, I greatly appreciate this forum's stance on AI. It would warm my heart to see writers brainstorming with other writers, other people, making friendships and connections, rather than resorting to an expedient but, in my self-assured opinion, inferior substitute. A lyric comes to mind. "The only thing that you possess on Earth we haven't made sense of is your soul, and adversity faced anywhere is no match for that, I know."
