The Importance of Reading Long Term Fiction

Sally Kohn: There's some rigorous reason to think that this could cause some serious damage. She says the reader is a crucial piece, as I've been talking about, is a crucial part of any piece of literature. The machines that are generating these stories cannot participate in a conversation and they're not conversing with each other but rather guessing what word comes next based on complex math or labor from Kenyan contractors paid $2 an hour. "I don't know. I think it could be fucked up," she said.