Chakrabarty was amazed. The line broke him, he told me. This time, in another blind test, the creative-writing students universally preferred the A.I. version to the imitations that their peers had come up with. “Powerful,” one said of the mother’s quote. “Emotionally affecting,” another said. “A truly devastating line,” a third wrote.
I get it. it’s scary that when trained on ‘great’ literature a statical machine can recreate prose. but here’s the deal. it cannot create NEW prose and it cannot incorporate societies progress into writings. Even if new writes rely on LLM there will still be writers.
Quote Citation: Vauhini Vara, “What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? | The New Yorker”, 2025-12-20, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-if-readers-like-ai-generated-fiction