Fascinating read. The bit I’m worried about is not AI writing a novel, it’s the possibility of culture drowning in endless polished, but average writing. To be fair we’ve been on a similar cultural trajectory without AI, everything feels samey.

Great, perhaps not. Successful, no doubt.

> "We can’t build a machine to do something when we don’t know how it works."

Really not sure this is true is it?

>When doubts were raised in May about the authenticity of a prizewinning short story by Jamir Nazir, social media users were lightning-quick in their condemnation. “If you know, you know,” commented one. Nazir later told The Atlantic that he didn’t use AI.

Yeah, no conflict of interest here