We’re turning some kind of corner in the ongoing conversation about if, where, and how to deal with the reality that AI-generated text has already made its way into mainstream publishing.
Here’s a look at the biggest recent headlines:
Welcome to the uncanny valley. In the most meta (but not Meta
) of experiments, Mother Jones‘s David Corn used Claude to generate a novel about a writer who used Claude to generate a novel. It took a couple tries, but the ultimate result was “not so bad.”
- Though flawed, The Ghost in the Machine (Claude’s got jokes) kept Corn engaged: “I wanted to keep reading. The plot is taut and, though I knew what was coming, the journey to the narrative guideposts I requested is a good ride, with a few surprises along the way.”
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