I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this growing trend of writers using AI (artificial intelligence) to craft scripts, structure, and even dialogue. Honestly? It’s a great strategy… if you want to be bored out of your mind as a reader.
AI, as it stands now—and maybe never—just doesn’t get human emotion. It can only mimic what it’s seen before. Right now, AI is like a psychopath.
Hear me out: Psychopaths, because of the way their minds are wired, don’t feel emotions like empathy, love, or shame. What they do get quite good at, though, is faking it. They learn to imitate how other people react emotionally—”This is what people look like when they’re happy,” or, “This is what people do when they’re sad.” But if you’ve ever been around a psychopath, you know something feels off.
It’s uncomfortable.
Now imagine reading a story written by someone who can’t feel emotion, just pretending to know what it’s like. That’s what AI does—it writes what it thinks humans might say or do in a given situation, but it’s empty. There’s no real depth, no true emotion behind the words.
At best, it’s boring; at worst, it’s unsettling.
If AI were capable of writing stories that really captured the complexity and authenticity the you as a reader demands, human writers (the ones with skill, at least) would be out of a job. But that hasn’t happened, and there’s a reason for it.
I’ve talked to friends in the AI field—experts—and most of them agree that AI just isn’t going to get to the point where it can genuinely write like a human anytime soon. Some say maybe in a generation, but even that’s uncertain.
It’s a little freaky to think about, but for now, human emotion can’t be replicated by a machine. AI can’t write from the heart; it can only copy what it sees–like a machine pretending to feel something it can’t.
And that’s why reading stories vomited out by AI is a losing game.
And that’s also why I quickly put the brakes on using AI to write The Brotherhood of the Wolf very early on. It gave me derivative crap that wasted my time by forcing me to re-write. Today, I ignore AI and just write the stories myself and work with talented writers to ensure that the scripts are top-notch.
Now, I relegate AI to a researcher for esoteric historical info–but even then I have to constantly check its work!
With The Brotherhood of the Wolf, you get the results of human craft (both story AND art). Love it or hate it…
Speaking of art: We have completed all the pencils for The Lesser Evil: Where Angels Fall, Monsters Rise.
Next step–the inks!
Best,
Wes
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