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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gareth Rubin

ChatGPT, can you write my new novel for me? Och aye, ye preenin’ Sassenach

Joseph Fiennes holds a quill pen in his ink-stained fingers in a scene from the film Shakespeare in Love.
Writing the hard way. Joseph Fiennes as the eponymous hero of Shakespeare in Love (1999). Photograph: Laurie Sparham/AP

The monsters of artificial intelligence are coming for you. They will cast you out on the street like a Dickensian mill owner and laugh as they do it – at least they will if you work in any sort of creative industry. We’re told this again and again, and the warnings might be right – America’s Authors Guild has even just announced plans for a trust mark to be stuck on book covers to show that the book was written by a human.

Well, I’m going to turn the tables. My publisher is anxiously waiting for me to finish my new novel, a sequel to my previous thriller The Turnglass. So let’s see if AI can take the faff – the actual writing bit – out of creative writing.

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