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Sci-fi master Ted Chiang on AI, time travel and more

Fiction Science

CHAPTER

The Threat of AI Generating Fiction

GPT three has an extremely short attention span, it can sort of maintain a train of thought over a few sentences, but it loses that you know over a page. To write a novel would require like maybe an entirely different approach than GPT uses. But more generally, what is the threat that AI generated fiction might pose to human authors? I don't think most people asking that are. Or at least I guess in the context that you're talking about.

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