ChatGPT is finishing up Game of Thrones
In 2011, “A Dance with Dragons” is the fifth part and to date the last part of the fantasy saga “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Fans of the extremely successful book series, which was filmed as “Game of Thrones”, have been waiting for the sequel for twelve years now.
It should actually have been finished in 2014/15. After numerous delays, Martin declared last year that he was 75 percent finished with the sixth part “The Winds of Winter”. But that means that you can’t expect it to appear before 2024 or 2025.
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Not to mention part seven, “A Dream of Spring”, which is supposed to be the culmination of the saga. Assuming Martin continues at the pace he’s last shown, it could be 2040 before A Song of Ice and Fire is finally complete. Martin would then be over 90 Year old.
So it’s no wonder that developer and “Game of Thrones” fan Liam Swayne has been looking for ways to get the last two parts earlier. He relied on the AI chatbot ChatGPT – and was not entirely dissatisfied with the results.
Swayne fed ChatGPT with a series of prompts. First, he had the chatbot create an outline for the first chapter and repeated this until there were 45 chapters including the outline. He then had ChatGPT populate this outline with more details, as Swayne explained to IGN.
The details, in turn, were used as prompts to give ChatGPT instructions for writing the chapters and individual scenes. Ultimately, the result was two books that Swayne made available to those who are interested to read free of charge (“The Winds of Winter” and “A Dream of Spring“).
In any case, Swayne was surprised at how consistent ChatGPT is when it comes to writing stories and characters. For example, the AI included the supporting character Illyrio in the first paragraphs, but then didn’t mention him for a very long time, only to bring him back for a single short scene.
According to Swayne, the procedure made perfect sense. The developer was also quite surprised by some of the twists that the AI chatbot had built in. These would also have made sense from a narrative point of view.
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Still, Swayne ultimately expressed his belief that AI in its current form is not a threat to creative narratives. So it was difficult for ChatGPT to incorporate surprising twists in the typical Martin manner. Especially when it comes to “killing” important characters.
