Nicolas Cole argues AI will match most fiction writers once authors encode their stories with extreme detail: breaking narratives into acts, scenes, and sub-scenes with explicit rules for character actions, conflicts, and resolutions. The writer's job becomes giving AI precise, structured instructions it executes flawlessly.
Where AI writing and human writing becomes indistinguishable, whether you like it or you don't, is when you are able to build your own IP down to this level of clarity. If you can isolate individual scenes and then frameworks within each scene, you're like, I know that I'm going to have the character do this first, and then this needs to happen, and then this conflict appears, and then here's the resolution, and then here's the beginning of the next quest, and then here's the transition. If you can do this for the whole story and then all the acts and then all the individual scenes and then all of the pieces within each individual scene, and you can create rules for each individual piece. You're like, here's how I want you to execute this big conflict in the middle. Here's how I want you to execute the beginning of the next quest. AI is going to be able to write this as good, probably better than the vast majority of humans. But it's not because you're deferring all the thinking to AI. It's because you're giving it so much specific, objective, tangible direction.
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