This is the thing with the computer-generated novel. To what extent is the computer actually "writing" that book? I mean how much human assistance is it being given, in terms of instructions and most specifically, pre-generated phrases and pre-linked words, to create it?

Eg the 50shades generator (of which there are several): http://www.xwray.com/fiftyshades/

It's being loaded up with so many pre-written phrases that the computer not really "writing", it's mixing and matching.

I'm struggling to articulate this, but what I currently perceive is that for any credible "computer generated" literary work, as opposed to eg a match or weather report, you need so much creative human input that the computer isn't actually having to do very much.

I have wondered about getting computers to write sex scenes. In terms of pornographic sex. where there is limited interest in emotional development, and one is really looking at a sequence of actions punctuated with a few "oh baby" and "slam it in" etc, I think a machine could do that brilliantly. I actually think if you wrote the right formula to start with, just changing a few variables each time you could mix and match and generate reams and reams of erotica, and all you would have to do is edit it a bit, set the scene at the start, and probably make the last paragraph seem more original.