Why I Write
Does it matter if an AI wrote The Lord of the Rings, instead of JRR Tolkien? If every character, punctuation, indentation, line break is identical to what Tolkien would have written, does the fact an AI wrote it make it worse (or better)? If the product itself is identical, does it lose any entertainment or literary value, simply because someone (or something) else penned it? My answer is that there will be nothing different, in the eyes of the readers at least. This view naturally assumes that the product is independent of its author. Which it should be. As you sit in your chair reading the novel, Tolkien isn’t there; it’s just you and the words. ...