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Earlier today, the legendary creator of horror novels, short stories and screenplays Stephen King made a statement about artificial intelligence for his 7.1 million followers on the Twitter/X social media network.
Stephen King posts puzzling AI-themed tweet
The writer’s statement had a bold touch to it, however, his army of followers was left to guess what the master horror mind meant.
King tweeted that he is not worried about AI, naming a reason for that – he has his “mojo working.”
It was not clear what the renowned book author meant by that. His tweet bursts of comments, where users are either showing their excitement about this statement or accusing King of going back to his dependencies of which he got rid when he was young.
It is possible that King was referring to “Box Office Mojo” – a US-based website that keeps track of box office revenues made by movies. Stephen King is well-known as not only a best-selling book author for the past several decades but also a writer with the highest amounts of books turned into movies. Among them are classics like “The Green Mile”, “The Shawshank Redemption”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, and, more recently” “Doctor Sleep.”
You should be worried, especially as a writer.
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@CW_Insider) April 8, 2024
King’s tweet has a certain point regarding the threat that writers may face in the near future over a fast AI development. A few months ago, in an interview, innovative billionaire Elon Musk, creator of the Grok AI chatbot, stated that within three years he expects AI to develop to the level when it will be able to write novels as good as J.K. Rowling – another best-selling writer famous for her books about Harry Potter.
Grok beats ChatGPT pricewise
As reported by U.Today earlier, Musk’s chatbot Grok that has been integrated on Twitter/X for its Premium users has surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 in terms of monthly subscription price.
Grok has been recently made available to all Premium users. However, they are not charged anything extra, except for $8 per month to use the Premium subscription service. Meanwhile, using ChatGPT-4 on a monthly basis now costs $20. This makes Grok usage 60% cheaper than its “woke” (according to Elon Musk) market competitor.
Meanwhile, as announced earlier, a new iteration – Grok 1.5 – is expected to roll out soon.