We now have a new name for writers: SLMs, Small Language Models.
I am an SLM, an organic being with a mysterious desire to express itself.
SLMs write from experience, which is perforce limited, and from our imaginations, which are not.
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Some will celebrate its arrival, while others will bemoan the loss of another sacred element of life.
No film or TV or streaming story is to be created by a machine, they insist.
No story idea to be created by one.
No story created by a human to be completed by one.
This technology will not pass.
Because the world this would introduce is not one we asked for, or remotely desire.
Just because it can, doesnt mean it should.
Some things must remain sacred.
That is the calculus that must occupy us.
Humanity must not sleepwalk into an unimagined future dominated by the unimaginative machines.
And we must not authorise our own retirement, nor sign our own professional death warrant.
We were too in awe of the benefits to evaluate the costs.
Once human territory is surrendered it is almost impossible to recover.
Let us not ruin again what we love, and love too soon what may ruin.
