aceI wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche
I recently heard an exchange at a playground that should worry the executives at AI companies more than any analyst’s prediction of a bubble. A boy and a girl, maybe 10 years old, were fighting. “That’s AI! That’s AI!” the girl was shouting. What she meant was that the boy was indulging a new and particular breed of nonsense: language that sounds meaningful but has no connection to reality. The children have figured the new world out quickly, as they do. Artificial intelligence is here to stay, neither as an apo…
Writers using transformer-based generative AI face automation of stylistic mastery and loss of the sentence-by-sentence practice that historically trained writers.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-04-02
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