At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
I have never used A.I. for professional writing of any kind, or even personal writing, unless you count the time I gave it an email I wanted to send to my landlord, talking him down from a drastic rent increase. I asked ChatGPT to make the email less verbose. When it did too good a job, I asked it to make the email less rude. It worked. What else? I...