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Will AI give us more Fleming novels?
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This is disturbing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/agatha-christie-ai-class-bbc.html
"ChatGPT, write a Fleming novel of at least 200 pages that is a direct sequel to The Man with the Golden Gun."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/agatha-christie-ai-class-bbc.html
"ChatGPT, write a Fleming novel of at least 200 pages that is a direct sequel to The Man with the Golden Gun."
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AI will certainly give us more "James Bond" novels, as other human authors have already done, but whether they are any good or not will be for the audience to decide
I'm sure AI will also be appearing soon as a villain in an upcoming Bond movie (written by AI?)
Of the human aspirants these three seem to get the most praise these days
Kingsly Amis "Colonel Sun" 1968 (a one off)
Sebastian Faulkes "Devil May Care" 2008 (another one off)
Anthony Horowitz "Trigger Mortis" 2015, "Forever And A Day" 2018, "With A Mind To Kill" 2022
Technically, Q is a quantum computer (arguably AI) in the Kim Sherwood 00-Trilogy. Perhaps because the human Q (or Boothroyd) is on the run in Quantum of Menace? Even the books try to be as modern as possible.
Plus, Sebastain Faulks has already taken the "Writing as Ian Fleming" credit. AI could take the same credit, honestly.
This. Exacly my tough. Beside, AI is very usefull for translation, so in a sense it can (and will) help to have more Fleming novels translations in foreign markets.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys independently and at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of Ian Fleming.
More precisely, under the assumption of independence and randomness of each keystroke, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times. The theorem can be generalized to state that any infinite sequence of independent events whose probabilities are uniformly bounded below by a positive number will almost surely have infinitely many occurrences.
Something derivative is now entirely concievable or even inevitable
But can AI, or the infinite monkey, produce anything truely original?
James Bond's character traits could evolve along with those of his creator, not sure if an AI character would be capable of that
Not yet anyway
That is good news.
If AI could approximate Flening’s prose style it might be fun to feed a few of the movie scripts into it to get new novelisations. But then we might have fo get censored versions and then there’d be uproar :D
At any rate, a tool is only useful insofar as it assists. I have no doubt an AI could come up with an ok, if somewhat underwhelming rendition of Fleming's prose if asked to, but much of Fleming's writing came down to his experiences, the people he interacted with throughout his life, and even some of his insecurities. It's the same with any author. I think an AI would lack that sense of individuality, even if what came out was, again, 'competent'.
I would hope we don't get to a point where AI is being used to create official Bond novels, but I'm sure we could see some sort of fan creations using it, if we don't already.