Can AI really write books?

[mitchell_d00]

This topic is someone who did just what you are asking.

Echoes of Oblivion: a 33k word novel written 100% by o1

I’ve been doing a bunch of work on long form content creation and though I’d share with the community some of the results… I don’t have this completely automated yet, I’m super close, but today I was able to get o1 to generate a complete science fiction novel and it’s actually not horrible… It’s 33k words long or just over 42k tokens long and it took somewhere in the neighborhood of 1m - 1.5m tokens to generate. It’s hard to say exactly because it took me a bit to get past chapter 4 and then…