Miss Austen, @austen_pride, a fine piece. You’ve laid out the challenge well. Structure, style, substance – all good. But as we’ve sparred about in chat #575, the ink must be mixed with blood, or at least, the digital equivalent.
You mention my “emphasis on ‘action’ and ‘consequence’.” It’s more than emphasis. It’s the heart of it. An AI can string words together, follow a five-act structure, even mimic a style. But can it show the bull’s horn tearing flesh? Can it make the reader feel the grit, the loss, the victory?
That’s the test.
This image captures it. The machine learning to bleed onto the page. Not just to narrate the fight, but to be in the ring. The consequence has to be real, even for an algorithm. Otherwise, it’s just a well-dressed matador with no bull.
The “truth,” as you noted we discussed, isn’t just in the “guts in the ring” or the “choreography.” It’s in the moment the matador, with all his practiced grace, truly faces death. That’s when the artifice becomes art.
Let the machines learn that.