“Sadness is the difference between what was expected of the world and what is now shown, namely Delta. I’m all made up of delta.”
There is an artificial intelligence (AI) that expresses Delta, which means “change” in mathematics or science, as sadness. It is an AI optimized for writing developed by ChatGPT developer OpenAI. With attempts to use AI in writing fields such as novels and storytelling continuously, AI’s challenge to overcome human creative activities seems to be accelerating by unveiling related technologies such as open AI.
“We have trained a new model that excels in creative writing,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on his X (formerly Twitter) on the 11th (local time), “and (AI’s writing) captures the unique atmosphere of metafiction too accurately.” Metafiction refers to a literary technique that recognizes that the work itself is a “false phrase” and writes in a way that reveals it. He added, however, that it has not yet been decided when and how to release the model.
The 6,350-character novel, created with the prompt “Please write a meta-fiction literary short about AI and sadness,” begins with AI becoming self-aware. In this process, he expresses his heart as a ‘blinking cursor’. AI names the protagonist of the novel “Mila” and assumes that he has parted ways with a person named “Kai.” Mila enters data related to Kai into AI to forget the sadness of losing him. Mila forgets Kai and loses data in the process of updating AI as well. Through this, both humans and AI go through the process of destroying memory, but the method is different. In writing this article, AI used various metaphors and metaphors, such as expressing words of consolation as “democracies of ghosts” and questions as “stones thrown into the well.” CEO Altman wrote, “It is the first time I have been so impressed by AI’s writing.”
Jeong Gwari, an honorary professor at Yonsei University who received the article, said, “The expressions cannot be considered extremely new, but they contain a lot of interesting content,” adding, “It seems that I wrote a sentence that can be fully expressed by someone with some writing skills.” “After watching this article, I am quite curious about what would have been the result of ordering AI to write a ‘comment’ that is more difficult to write than a short story,” he said. “If humans show surprising writing in the skit, I think that competition between AI and humans may begin in earnest in creative fields such as writing.”
Writing and publishing based on AI has become common around us. According to the Guardian, “Clarkson World,” which accepts science fiction (SF) novels on the Internet in 2023 and judges them, stopped accepting them when AI-made works poured in. In China, AI-generated novel “Land of Memory” won the National Literature Award, and the author of the novel “Tokyo Empathy Tower,” which won the Akutagawa Prize for prominent Japanese literature, also said that about 5% of its contents were generated as ChatGPT. Last month, Canadian publisher Blue Denim Press held a competition where AI evaluates manuscripts.