PinTale: Feasibility study for a dynamic, AI-enabled writing support platform

无论是小说、学术、新闻还是任何其他类型的长篇内容，写作都是一项复杂而艰巨的任务，需要大量的计划、准备和笔记。这就是为什么80%的人想要写一本书，但只有3%的人会从头到尾（polisedpages.com）。作家们传统上求助于工具来帮助他们管理内容，保持条理，提高效率，比如笔记本和便利贴。尽管其他创意产业的技术进步了，但大多数写作软件仍然只是传统“笔和纸”工具的数字化版本，提供文字处理、记录保存或基本的时间轴生成工具，没有交叉交流。人工智能有可能从根本上改变这种局面。然而，目前在写作圈中，关于人工智能的大多数讨论都围绕着文本生成人工智能对就业的威胁展开。利用人工智能来支持所有学科的作家进行计划和写作，这是一个明确的、未被充分利用的机会，它展示了人工智能如何在不代表作家生成文本的情况下加快和加强写作过程。我们正在开发PinTale：一个智能内容结构平台，具有新颖的人工智能功能和动态可视化，以支持写作过程。最初，它将为小说作家提供数字工具，为作者输入的关键数据提供智能可视化，以支持他们进行绘图、刻画、节奏等：显著颠覆现有的软件工具，满足作家的需求。未来的功能将扩展PinTale的功能，以服务更广泛的写作群体，包括记者和学者。该项目将对我们的人工智能技术进行可行性研究，与人工智能专家合作伙伴合作，将人工智能与包括巴斯斯帕大学创意写作系成员在内的活跃作家团体结合起来，为最终用户定义所需和必要的功能，并建立实现这些功能的途径。在项目结束时，我们将在广泛的用户研究和报告的基础上，交付PinTale平台的架构和设计。至关重要的是，PinTale永远不会代表作家生成任何文本。它将从他们选择的输入中学习，并提供有用的、相关的智能数据可视化和指导，帮助他们写出更好的长篇内容——而不是为他们写。这代表了一个独特的机会，可以在写作和更广泛的创意圈中改变围绕人工智能的叙述，提供一个用例，说明它如何作为一种工具来支持创造者，而不是取代他们。

Whether it's fiction, academia, journalism, or any other type of longform content, writing is a complex and arduous task requiring significant planning, preparation and note-keeping. This is one of the key reasons why \>80% of people want to write a book, but only 3% who start ever finish (polished-pages.com).Writers have traditionally turned to tools to help them manage content, stay organised and increase productivity, such as notebooks and sticky notes. Despite technological advances in other creative industries, most writing software still acts simply as digitised versions of traditional 'pen and paper' tools, offering word-processing, record-keeping or basic timeline generation tools with no cross-communication.AI has the potential to radically transform this landscape. However, the majority of conversations about AI within writing circles currently centre around the threat to jobs created by text-generation AI. There is a clear and underexploited opportunity to utilise AI to support writers of all disciplines as they plan and write, demonstrating how AI can speed up and strengthen the writing process without generating text on writers' behalves.We are developing PinTale: an intelligent content structuring platform, with novel AI functionalities and dynamic visualisations to support the writing process. Initially, it will comprise digital tools for fiction writers to deliver smart visualisation of key data input by the author to support them in plotting, characterisation, pacing and more: significantly disrupting existing software tools and meeting identified writer needs. Future features will expand PinTale's functionality to serve wider writing groups including journalists and academics.This project will conduct a feasibility study for our AI-enabled technology, working with AI-expert partners Combine AI and active writers' groups including members of the Bath Spa University Creative Writing Department to define desired and necessary features for end-users and to establish the route to achieving them. By project end we will deliver the architecture and design for the PinTale platform, grounded in extensive user research and reporting.Crucially, PinTale will never generate any text on writers' behalves. It will learn from the inputs they choose to give and deliver useful, relevant smart data visualisation and guidance to help them write better longform content -- not to write it for them. This represents a unique opportunity to transform the narrative around AI in writing and wider creative circles, providing a use-case for how it can act as a tool to support creators rather than to supplant them.