"Automuse: A system for generating fiction novels".

The system combines something called Plotto, a system of plot formulas, with GPT-4. They've also made an "eBook publication pipeline", so you can get the novels you generate onto your e-book reader.

"Plotto is a collection of 1,462 generic plot conflicts that can be chained together into a 'masterplot' that forms the core plot structure for the story. The rules for chaining the plot conflicts together is called the "algebra for stories".

It was originally published in -- get this 1928. By William Wallace Cook. This "algebra for stories" got encoded into software by a project called Plottoriffic.

This project, Automuse, adds the final piece by adding GPT-4.

"It's worth noting that Plotto is very much a product of its time. Plotto was written in the late 1920's and as such the information it generates is very dated and can sometimes generate things that are seen as problematic in modern sensibilities. Luckily, ChatGPT seems to sand away this roughness and is able to fabricate a better premise."

Plotto determines the premise of a novel, the major actors and their functions, the overall motivations, and the end result of the story. ChatGPT turns this into a plot summary for the novel. ChatGPT next creates a list of chapters for the novel with a high level summary of the events that happen in them. In actually writing the chapters, they have a technique for feeding proceeding text back in to maintain continuity, although it doesn't always maintain continuity.

"The outputs of the program have been described as 'hilarious', 'partially nonsensical', and overall they have left readers wanting more somehow."

Stable Diffusion is used to generate cover art, and a tool called Pandoc stitches everything together into an e-book.

Automuse: A system for generating fiction novels

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