I think the point is less that a private club is being invaded and more along the lines of what other groups are concerned about -- the copyright issues. And, as they note, the courtesy of attribution for inspiration. Only one of the engines out there -- Bing, I think, bothers to tell you where it drew its information from.
In the mean time, I doubt anyone is going to turn to an AI language model for fanfiction any time soon. I've been playing with Google's Bard, which is now free to use for anyone, and the best it can do is two- or three-hundred-word things that read like they were written by a third-grader. (And as the article notes, it seems to think fanfiction=Harry Potter unless you tell it otherwise. It also has a little difficulty understanding that original fiction and fanfiction are different things.)
I have to admit, btw, that Bard can be a lot of fun with the right prompt. At one point the first night I was playing with it, I asked it to give me a synopsis of the general premise, plot and characters of the (non-existent) classic 1950s sitcom "Me and My Serial Killer". It came back with a vaguely admonishing reply that there was no such program -- but also offered me two alternative answers. One was also "No such program exists" but then suggested I might be thinking of a particular episode of The Twilight Zone. The other, however, was a surprisingly detailed article a la Wikipedia about a show in which every episode was about the madcap adventures of a man trying to keep his serial killer wife out of trouble -- it read kind of like a cross between Bewitched and Silence of the Lambs. I now find myself wishing I had saved that, it was disturbingly amusing.
In the mean time, I doubt anyone is going to turn to an AI language model for fanfiction any time soon. I've been playing with Google's Bard, which is now free to use for anyone, and the best it can do is two- or three-hundred-word things that read like they were written by a third-grader. (And as the article notes, it seems to think fanfiction=Harry Potter unless you tell it otherwise. It also has a little difficulty understanding that original fiction and fanfiction are different things.)
I have to admit, btw, that Bard can be a lot of fun with the right prompt. At one point the first night I was playing with it, I asked it to give me a synopsis of the general premise, plot and characters of the (non-existent) classic 1950s sitcom "Me and My Serial Killer". It came back with a vaguely admonishing reply that there was no such program -- but also offered me two alternative answers. One was also "No such program exists" but then suggested I might be thinking of a particular episode of The Twilight Zone. The other, however, was a surprisingly detailed article a la Wikipedia about a show in which every episode was about the madcap adventures of a man trying to keep his serial killer wife out of trouble -- it read kind of like a cross between Bewitched and Silence of the Lambs. I now find myself wishing I had saved that, it was disturbingly amusing.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....