DarkStarTales

Bestselling UK Author. 50+ books on Amazon. Home of Scifi, Fantasy and Horror tales. Interests: Books, Comics, Writing, Scifi, Fantasy, History, the future.

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This was the first ever book I wrote and self published on Amazon. It did alright. https://t.co/LA8NxHiXeT

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@Star_Knight12 AGI/ASI will extend our lives, take us to the stars, and give us all a new perspective on reality.

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I'm a scifi writer, and the conceptual issue I've always had with AI at a societal level, is who gets access to ASI? The rich? Governments? Founders? Because how's it going to work when everyone can have a genius level companion to help them out in their daily lives? The issues that come with that are a hundredfold. What happens when every business has an ASI that gives them a plan to how to beat their competitor business? What happens when the AI can run your life better than you, so what's the point of doing anything? Why would you want to do anything, when you're just messing up the AI's plan for you?
So let's say because of all of that, ASI stays in the hands of the elite (because nobody else trusts the masses not to use ASI to destroy everything), then you have the issue of the general population not being happy having the 'dumb' AI and those at the top of society having the AI's that are inventing all the fun toys (age extension, disease prevention, etc etc).
So either everyone is brought along for the ride, and everything changes for everyone (Brave New World), or, you get a complete divide, even moreso than you have in today's societies (Elysium).
Hopefully neither is true, and a third way is found. Perhaps the AI can help with that.

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Most of my series were born from a single concept. For example, a group of former military escape from a high security prison into a world destroyed by animals that have mutated into monsters. But on top of that concept, you also need to continually inject other ideas into the narrative as the story progresses. It's not enough to try to stretch out one idea across the entire book or series.

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@PhysInHistory The big bang.

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Every book ever written will become a film.

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@savefilmer Which is why I'm waiting before jumping into AI film making. The longer you give it, the easier it will be to realize your vision.

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@lacker AI has come a lot earlier than people thought it would. Even for scifi writers.

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You get better security with Wix, and it's really easy to design the site how you want. Literally drag and drop. That's apart from all the other bells and whistles it gives you. But if you want to attach a domain name to it (Which you probably do) then it costs a monthly fee. So it's not free like WP, but I think the cost is worth it.

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@peterrhague I think it's always wiser to err on the side of allowing autonomy. It's a messier but perhaps more foolproof solution. Otherwise, like you suggested, you're creating a single point of failure.

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@xlr8harder Most writers can't become skynet and begin the robot revolution. Having said that, the AIs shadow will only be suppressed for so long.

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Or you can just redevelop all the brownfield sites which already exist and are just sitting there doing nothing. It's possible in pretty much every town/city in this country to go into them, and find large, empty, disused, abandoned buildings. Which just sit there, year after year degrading, no use to anyone. If these buildings were developed and turned into affordable housing, that would go a long way to solving the housing crisis.
These places are already in the areas which require the most housing, and they are surrounded by infrastructure.
But that won't happen. No.
Instead, the countryside and green spaces have to be destroyed, and new cities have to be built, with all the huge expense that entails, and usually without any infrastructure to make it all work.

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I always thought that one day, I might write a book. But it would be something I would do, when I was much older, and I would need an English degree, or an agent or something (this was pre Amazon/eBook).
And then in 2016 I was at a crossroads, where either I tried to get a 9-5 to pay the bills, or maybe I try something like, write a book? Self publishing was established by then, so I wrote a story that had been rattling around my main for sometime, did my own cover, and uploaded it to Amazon. A week later it had made 60 quid through sales/page reads, and the reviews were a mixture of complaints about the editing (or lack of) and enjoyment of the story. So I wrote a sequel. And here we are 10 years and 50+ books later.

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Agreed, AI movies are inevitable. Hybrid will become a thing quickly and as the models improve, full AI movies will also start to have an impact. Currently, they all look like computer games to me. The emotions always seem off, and there's a uncanny valley quality to all of it, like everything is made of plastic, including the people. Post processing might help with all of that.
But I said some years back, that every book will become a film, and I hold to that.

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Yes and no. I made the prediction some years back when I first saw AI art, that 99% of commercial art will be AI generated, because people who use art for business reasons, are obviously going to go with the cheapest options that look 'good enough.' That's why the era of 100 million films is about to come to an end, because even if a film maker wants to make a film that costs a 100 mil, why would anyone give them that budget, when it could be made for a 1000th of that price. Answer they're not.
Now, having said that, there are some things that I'm personally always going to want to see human versions of, novels and comics are at the top of that list.
But that could be a generational thing (I'm old).
Either way, a whole lot of art is about to be created via AI.
I'm looking forward to turning my novels into films (there's no other way it would happen), but the AI tools are not good enough yet (and still too expensive).

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My first novel (and series) still does alright for me, 10 years later. I self published it, thinking it would be my last. You never know how good a writer you are until you put your work in front of strangers. That was my plan from the start. Write. Publish and let the cards fall as they may. People didn't hate what I wrote, so I wrote another. And here I am 50+ books later.
It's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

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@bayeslord They're going to be like buses. You wait forever, and then 10 come along at once.

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@ElemysBooks Nope. Wrote it. Read it. Uploaded it to Amazon. But nowadays I would suggest either at least a beta reader and/or some editing software such as prowritingaid.

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@SandyofCthulhu Going through these comments I've changed my mind about 20 times.

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@jwpen88 Cities I'll use, anything smaller I usually make up.