What’s the Problem If a Good Book Is Written With AI?

Someone asked this in a writing group last week, and meant it sincerely. It usually gets asked rhetorically — as a way of ending the argument rather than having it. This time it wasn’t, so it deserves a real answer. Here’s mine: the question contains a hidden assumption, which is that good is the only …

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Where the Line Actually Is

On a collapsed $2 million book deal A debut crime novel lost its publisher this summer. The reported advance was around $2 million. The stated reason was not that the book was bad — nobody has said the book was bad. The reason was that the author’s agents said they could no longer authenticate how …

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