AI Writing: Possibilities and Challenges for Literary Life
摘要
This chapter divides artificial intelligence writing into two categories: artificial intelligence-assisted writing and robot-generated writing. Artificial intelligence-assisted writing provides writing formats, content templates, and styles to assist creators in producing works more quickly, or directly guides creators to produce works in a modularized and mass-production manner. It also provides features such as multi-user collaborative writing support. In Chinese, there are software like “Da Writer”, “Ji Ji Writing”, “Bi Shen”, and “Xuan Pai”. In English, there are Dramatica Pro, FLIX, etc. The functions of these types of artificial intelligence-assisted writing software are mainly for writers and screenwriters, aiming to reduce their creative labor intensity and make writing more intelligent. The writer of robot-generated writing is the robot itself, meaning that the robot creates instead of humans, so the author of this chapter names it robot-generated writing. This type of writing software includes Tencent News Robot, Microsoft Xiaoice Creative Writing Robot, etc. Further, the author divides robot-generated writing into non-fictional creation and fictional creation. The former, like news robots, can automatically and dynamically track and retrieve online or database information, conduct intelligent analysis, and independently write news reports, feature articles, and analysis reports, such as CCTV's financial robot “Xiaojin”. The latter, like Weiwei developed by Tsinghua University and Microsoft's Xiaoice, are creative-type robots that directly carry out original literary writing. What is the current status of artificial intelligence writing? In the field of artificial intelligence-assisted writing, how far can intelligent writing go? In the field of robot-generated writing, how far can it go? What kind of development ideas and goals can the current software and hardware levels support? How should we respond to the challenges brought by the development of intelligent writing to writing techniques, aesthetics, and copyright regulations? These are the issues we need to study.