Chat GPT has been writing horror stories this week and some of the summaries sound great. It shows that AI can be an endless source of excellent writing jobs for artists, writers, and TV and filmmakers.

One of the fundamental principles of human creativity is copying. Copying and transforming. Art students might sit on museum floors and sketch copies of paintings and sculptures. Musicians almost always learn to play the songs of other musicians. Then, after internalizing what they’ve learned, they synthesize new paintings or songs shaped by what they’ve learned. AI works in exactly the same way, only without the creative human spark that brings transformation. Wouldn’t it be the perfect sidekick to an artist?

“As someone who works in the AI industry, I can say that AI is most useful when used as a collaborator. AI technologies can be powerful tools that assist humans in the creative process. For example, they can help generate ideas and provide additional insights into situations that would otherwise require human expertise,” Oliver Goodwin, founder and CEO of AI audio and video platform Synthesys, told Lifewire via email.

Check out this Reddit thread titled “A two-sentence horror story scary to AI.” It collects the results of Chat GPT-created horror stories, as requested by a group of fans of horror author HP Lovecraft. The results aren’t particularly original, but they all make excellent prompts for any author looking to write a horror story.