Comment by username223

> If I was going to use AI to write my novel, I would literally be robbing myself of the pleasure of making it myself.

The same would be true if I were going to use AI to read it. If we just wanted to trade Clif Notes around, why bother with novels at all?

Cyber-Leo-Tolstoy types a three-page summary of "War and Peace" into ChatGPT and tells it to generate an 800-page novel. Millions of TikTok-addled students ask ChatGPT to summarize the 800-page novel into three pages (or a five-paragraph essay). What is the point of any of this?