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How many of you would feel cheated if you read a novel that was written by a robot? Here’s why

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John Sutter: For writers, it Authors’ Guild g scenario for them.

He says when we read, we're looking for something more than great content Mary Rasenberger an connection.

Google's Gemini promises to “supercharge your productivity an AI creativity”.

Author’s Guild fears that much of what we read, see, and hear will be coproduced, if not entirely concocted, by robots.

In a new book, an associate English professor at Columbia University, Dennis Yi Tenen, notes that fears like mine.

He says that despite its highbrow associations much of the work of writing is a conventional form of labor that’s prone to automation.

As computers get more accomplished and have access to m Claude d more data, their limitations as storytellers will fall away.

"In 20 years, there will be no area in which Narrative Science doesn't write stories," Hammond says.

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