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Denise Shelton's avatar

Ah, well. Here’s the thing. My initial response to AI writing was “hell to the no!” But now, I’m not so sure. At the moment, we have a multitude of “content creators” producing a mountain of what amounts to the same thing. They don’t have an original thought in their heads. They copy other people’s article ideas and outright plagiarize. Cooking blogs are a great example. Every New York Times recipe with legs has been redone ad infinitum. I once googled “10 job interview tips” and got over 2 billion nearly identical hits. So let the real robots write the stuff people are just phoning in anyway. Talented writers who can produce what the computer can’t may suddenly be in demand. Maybe we can in turn demand higher pay. We can dream, right?

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David Perlmutter's avatar

I want nothing to do with ChatGPT or anything related to it. Authorship should always be treated as a venture done entirely or primarily by human beings, and Amazon needs to tighten its belt on allowing machine-made materials to be distributed. Some fiction magazines I know of are reevaluating their submission processes to deal with this, so it's not like there's no precedent.

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