Anyway, my stance remains that if you can find an AI that writes a book as good as mine, you should absolutely read it, because that will be a damn fine book. But I’m not holding my breath.

Instead, I suspect that we will become able to spot the “flavor” of certain LLMs writing, the way we can often spot a visual gen now. “Oh look, this story has extra fingers.”

your latest book was immensely enjoyable I finished this morning and I miss Hester already

I don't want to read a book that isn't written by a person because it feels empty. Like maybe I would try to read one, once, for the novelty? But even if a machine somehow wrote a really good book, it would feel empty because it didn't come from another consciousness

If we could find an AI that writes a book as good as yours, it would be actual evidence of actual intelligence, not the wishful think of the TESCREAL crowd.

In computer science, there is a sorting algorithm called bogosort, which works by randomly rearranging the list of things to sort and then checking to see if the result is sorted, until it happens to succeed. Generative AI is at a similar level of usefulness. In theory, you could get lucky, but...