Debbie Urbanski at Literary Hub:
Let’s imagine, for the purpose of this essay, that the following statement is true: An AI writes a novel.
Actually, forget about the imagining. This is already happening. Today’s AIs—large language models (LLMs) specifically, like GPT-4—can write. If you’ve glanced at the headlines this year, you probably know this. They can write papers for high school students, they can write bad poetry, they can write sentences, they can write paragraphs, and they can write novels.
The problem is, for now, the creative writing that LLMs produce isn’t that great.
To demonstrate this point, I recently gave GPT-4 a few lines from my novel that describe a post-human world. Then I asked it to complete the paragraph.
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