Joseph Earp’s piece on artificial intelligence and storytelling misses the mark (29 March). He casts creativity as a kind of untouchable genius and AI as its pale imitation. But storytelling is not a solitary act of divine inspiration – it is a craft, shaped in the doing and often improved through collaboration.
Used well, AI is neither genius nor fraud. It’s a tool – like a piano is to a composer, or a chisel to a sculptor. It can’t replace vision, but it can sharpen it. In the hands of a thoughtful human, it helps reshape sentences, test rhythms, offer contrasts. It does not feel, but it can provoke feeling in the writer. It doesn’t know, but it can raise questions that lead to knowing.
