Stephen Downes

What I like about this article is that it gives us an extended extract from the beginning of Winter Takes One, "an 89,000-word upmarket thriller" that was written by an AI and "led to a four-way bidding war and a $3.5 million, two-book deal." It's an example of 'superslop', AI writing that actually fools professional editors. I also agree with the conclusions, two of them: "Commercial writing, at any level of quality, might be dead. It's already nearly impossible for a writer to earn a living on the quality of text"; and "Superslop will continue to evolve. It will defeat AI autograders. It will defeat human literary agents." Photo by me.