@foone
The peng!-collective has done just that on last year's Frankfurt book fair. Though, not as "the real thing", but as a prank. And apparently they scored a lot of companies who were really interested in the promised technology.
Sorry the link is in german (didn't find any english links for "amazing books")
@foone this seems spiritually similar to releasing a story as a video game. lemme think…
fine tune a model to act kinda like a dungeons and dragons dragon master. apply control vectors so it’s nearly impossible to have it act out of character. integrate it into a game, such that the LLM can issue commands and participate. prompt it with a storyline and let it go. have game mechanics (e.g. dice rolls + cards) determine the actual flow
@foone
I could see how it could be an interesting method for storytelling. For example, if you wrote the individual pieces of the story in-depth and fed it through as a highly specialized AI, it might be fun.
If done poorly, which is, let's be honest, more likely, well ew, gross. No.
@foone Kind of what they did with RACTER (the program which supposedly wrote ”the Policeman’s beard is half constructed”, although I guess the ”novel” is assumed to have involved some heavy human editing)
@foone You can also imagine this inadvertently becoming the only record of some work, in some distant future.
Alien archaeologists: "Our records show that in the late days of human civilization, before the Antimatter Wars of the 2050s, the works of a bard named "Tolkien" were popular. But after the war Great Copyright Enforcement Purge of the libraries, and the war, all we have are excerpts, ritualistic graphics called 'memes' and one language model that produces in-universe erotic literature."
@foone I seem to remember a performance-art bit in the floppy disk era which was a single-user experience (a hypertext book, IIRC) that deleted itself after viewing, and was never put online. This reminded me of it but I cannot remember what it was called. Fitting, perhaps.