A pattern that I intuit but probably won't pay much attention to: the vast majority of AI-assisted fiction will follow a hero's journey arc (see: The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell). This archetypal pattern appeals deeply to human consciousness, and Campbell's framing of it is very AI-grokkable.

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I feel this for sure and tbh I'm for it. It's a forcing function for humans to come to terms with a reality that most people, even so-called artistic geniuses, don't have many original thoughts or creations. And that's okay. It's all relative. Like if the art resonates, then it's good - despite it's originality...

def agree

we'll also see the re-emergence of the "earnest tropes" like instead of the "subverted tropes" bc most writers using AI won't make the connection that the plot device is a trope in the first place

this will also ignite more copycat content fights 

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100%. The everywhere-ness of it is part of Campbell's genius observation and synthesis. Sort of like the fish being aware of water.

I think that lots of AI-assisted will follow the hero's journey precisely because so much fiction that it's been trained on follows the arc in the way Campbell describes it.

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As a writer who has studied this, afaict the vast majority of all fiction follows this sort of stuff.

Campbell is just one elaborate version of it, but the essence of the 3-act character arc is everywhere.

This is what Carl Jung calls the psychic cycle (psychic as in psyche not paranormal). Joseph Campbell never denied the Jungian roots of it anyway, but just a reminder that the hero archetype is so deep entrenched into us to a point beyond repair, if you find Jungian psychology plausible - that is.