George RR Martin’s publisher defends new Game of Thrones book amid AI artwork claims

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Fans suspect cover elements of new illustrated edition of ‘A Feast for Crows’ generated with AI

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George RR Martin says he is three quarters of the way through The Winds of Winter

George RR Martin is asymptotically approaching the completion of the next book in the series, while simultaneously aging in linear time, which presents fairly obvious problems.

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He should finish up what he’s already got by writing “Actually I just don’t care anymore. The End” and leave the last quarter of the book blank pages. Probably better than anything else he’s going to come up with at this point, and as a bonus it will fit perfectly with the ending of the show.

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https://www.workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm

All too often, the budding author finds that his tale has run its course and yet he sees no way to satisfactorily end it, or, in literary parlance, “wrap it up.” Observe how easily I resolve this problem:

Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck.
-the end-

If the story happens to be set in England, use the same ending, slightly modified:

Suddenly, everyone was run over by a lorry.
-the end-

If set in France:

Soudainement, tout le monde etait écrasé par un camion.
-finis-

You’ll be surprised at how many different settings and situations this ending applies to. For instance, if you were writing a story about ants, it would end “Suddenly, everyone was run over by a centipede.” In fact, this is the only ending you ever need use.¹

¹ Warning - if you are writing a story about trucks, do not have the trucks run over by a truck. Have the trucks run over by a mammoth truck.

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Is getting hit by a truck really the end? Or just the beginning?

Isekai genre: Allow me to introduce myself.

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In Japan, being run over by a truck is merely the start of the story.

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It would definitely subvert my expectations

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He could make any character just say “you know what? Fuck it, finish it yourself” and then blank pages…

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I mean. If AI is getting involved here, let’s just upload all the current GoT novels, the screenplays from the HBO shows that pick up where the books end, and tell chatgpt or whatever to adapt the remaining screenplays following the style of the novels. Maybe specify a minimum length of 2,500 pages to be safe.

Let’s not even bother to proofread it because it should absolutely remain garbage slop to reflect the quality of the show’s ending. Might as well add a pretty picture for the cover art too, for good measure.

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This timeline sucks… we really have to answer to people who suspect something may be AI now because it’s too hard to tell sometimes? I kind of wish I was an artist, I would be adding extra fingers to everything just to get a reaction.

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So in your opinion the problem is people worrying about something being AI generated and not the continued use and force feeding of AI into every aspect of life by corps feeding one another into an economic and ecological disaster? Hmm?

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No, my problem is that we are at the point where we probably need to put labels on everything to officially certify it’s not AI. Otherwise, everyone will just claim its AI.

Obviously, if the choice was no AI at all, then, of course, that should be the standard, but that’s never going to happen ever again.

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Why is that a problem? AI having to come with labels sounds great. It’s both an obvious good and an obviously correct step to take. In a world with leaders who we’re worth anything it would have happened immediately. The second deep fakes became possible an intelligent society would have immediately said all AI production has to be labeled.

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So do only AI pics come with watermarks or do all things now need to come with a real and not real label. You pick up a book, and it has a label across the cover saying not generated by AI. Will there be a board created for people to certify its authenticity? Will that now cost people extra to have this verified? Yeah, that sounds great. Instead of simplifying things, it sounds like it just gets harder and harder like usual.

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Why would you need a “not AI” label? Your argument is approaching absurdity. If something is produced by AI it should come labeled. 100% no exceptions. It’s not difficult.

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This article is about people not believing the cover is real. You think as soon as you start labeling just AI pics people won’t just assume the ones that aren’t weren’t lying without being verified? And yeah, it is absurd, but if you really believe people won’t think that way, then I guess you have more faith in them than I do.

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Cool and all, but no thanks.

Finish the goddamned series we’ve been waiting decades for.

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Never gonna happen. S8 is the best we’ll get 😢 😭 😢

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I mean the series of books. That’s all we want.

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So did I. S8 is the only ending to the story of the books we’ll ever get cos the final books are never going to be written

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If I remember correctly they were doing an illustrated version of the book each year and then the series got delayed because they fell out with the orginal illustrator.

So it would make sense that this one would be shit, because even if its not AI errors like this are basic shit to get right, because I believe the dispute was over money.

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