My experience using Pandora is that I usually have to use the same seed pieces a number of times before the algorithm will correctly pick up on the common feartures I like. This isn’t too surprising; if there are a lot of features then presumably there are a ton of different pieces that are equidistant from my starting seed, and only a subset of them are in the right direction in featurespace. It’s a model that works well enough for Pandora, because I can get a feel for a piece of music very quickly, and it will take me at most half an hour to pin down the feature area I’m looking for. I question whether this same model is feasible for fiction, because while you can select for things like writing style or camera technique within a couple of minutes, the time investment for most other features is going to be much higher. (Examples: is foreshadowing done well or not? Do characters change realistically in response to events over the course of the fiction? Is the ending logically and/or emotionally satisfying? Is there troubling subtext? Is the narrator reliable?)
Fiction “genes” will definitely be more complex creatures than music “genes”. We’ve actually tackled the issues you raise in this post, in the linked thread.
My experience using Pandora is that I usually have to use the same seed pieces a number of times before the algorithm will correctly pick up on the common feartures I like. This isn’t too surprising; if there are a lot of features then presumably there are a ton of different pieces that are equidistant from my starting seed, and only a subset of them are in the right direction in featurespace. It’s a model that works well enough for Pandora, because I can get a feel for a piece of music very quickly, and it will take me at most half an hour to pin down the feature area I’m looking for. I question whether this same model is feasible for fiction, because while you can select for things like writing style or camera technique within a couple of minutes, the time investment for most other features is going to be much higher. (Examples: is foreshadowing done well or not? Do characters change realistically in response to events over the course of the fiction? Is the ending logically and/or emotionally satisfying? Is there troubling subtext? Is the narrator reliable?)
Fiction “genes” will definitely be more complex creatures than music “genes”. We’ve actually tackled the issues you raise in this post, in the linked thread.