Idea for how to create actually good AI-generated fiction:
Possible prerequisite: Decent fact-checker language model program / scaffold. Doesn’t have to be perfect, but has to be able to grind away given a body of text (such as wikipedia) and a target sentence or paragraph to fact-check, and do significantly better than GPT4 would by itself if you asked it to write a new paragraph consistent with all the previous 50,000 tokens.
Idea 0: Self-consistent story generation
Add a block of text to the story, then fact-check that it is consistent with what came before & delete it if not. Repeat.
Example: Like AI Dungeon but costs more but delivers a higher-quality experience because you can have more intricate and coherent plots and worldbuilding.
Idea 1: Historical Fiction
Don’t just check for self-consistency, browse Wikipedia and the full text of a few books on the Battle of X and check for consistency there too.
Example: Write me a 7-book game-of-thrones style multi-perspective epic, except that it’s historical fiction about Cortez’ conquest of Mexico. Have one of the characters be a Spaniard (perhaps Martin Lopez the shipwright?), another be a Mexican/Aztec (perhaps Cuauhtemoc?) another a warrior from Tlaxcala, and another Malintzin herself. Feel free to take creative liberties but make sure that everything that happens is consistent with current historical scholarship as represented by [database of books and articles].
Idea 2: Time travel
Use this method to brute-force a consistent ludovician (technical term for single-unchanging-timeline) time travel storyline.
Possible time travel machine design: When powered on, the machine creates a time portal with one end at time T and another end at time T+N. Whatever goes in at T+N comes out at T.
Possible generation rules:
Each new block of the story must be consistent with all previous blocks.
If the story doesn’t end with the same thing going into the portal at time T+N that came out at time T, delete and restart from time T.
(Maybe also specify that none of the matter that came out at time T can go into the portal at time T+N, for then there would be “historyless matter” which imposes a huge complexity penalty)
(Simpler design to think about: device simply checks the future to see whether temperature of device’s matter is above or below X at time T. Delete stories that result in the temperature-prophecy being wrong. Generate multiple stories in which the temperature-prophecy is correct, and then select the one that is overall most plausible.)
Idea for how to create actually good AI-generated fiction:
Possible prerequisite: Decent fact-checker language model program / scaffold. Doesn’t have to be perfect, but has to be able to grind away given a body of text (such as wikipedia) and a target sentence or paragraph to fact-check, and do significantly better than GPT4 would by itself if you asked it to write a new paragraph consistent with all the previous 50,000 tokens.
Idea 0: Self-consistent story generation
Add a block of text to the story, then fact-check that it is consistent with what came before & delete it if not. Repeat.
Example: Like AI Dungeon but costs more but delivers a higher-quality experience because you can have more intricate and coherent plots and worldbuilding.
Idea 1: Historical Fiction
Don’t just check for self-consistency, browse Wikipedia and the full text of a few books on the Battle of X and check for consistency there too.
Example: Write me a 7-book game-of-thrones style multi-perspective epic, except that it’s historical fiction about Cortez’ conquest of Mexico. Have one of the characters be a Spaniard (perhaps Martin Lopez the shipwright?), another be a Mexican/Aztec (perhaps Cuauhtemoc?) another a warrior from Tlaxcala, and another Malintzin herself. Feel free to take creative liberties but make sure that everything that happens is consistent with current historical scholarship as represented by [database of books and articles].
Idea 2: Time travel
Use this method to brute-force a consistent ludovician (technical term for single-unchanging-timeline) time travel storyline.
Possible time travel machine design: When powered on, the machine creates a time portal with one end at time T and another end at time T+N. Whatever goes in at T+N comes out at T.
Possible generation rules:
Each new block of the story must be consistent with all previous blocks.
If the story doesn’t end with the same thing going into the portal at time T+N that came out at time T, delete and restart from time T.
(Maybe also specify that none of the matter that came out at time T can go into the portal at time T+N, for then there would be “historyless matter” which imposes a huge complexity penalty)
(Simpler design to think about: device simply checks the future to see whether temperature of device’s matter is above or below X at time T. Delete stories that result in the temperature-prophecy being wrong. Generate multiple stories in which the temperature-prophecy is correct, and then select the one that is overall most plausible.)