Mining of authors' work is nothing new – AI is just doing what creative humans do
Ian McEwan was influenced by LP Hartley's The Go-Between. George Orwell's Nighteen Eighty-Four was inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. Did Richard Osman invent the genre of cosy crime? The publishing industry as a whole is guilty of putting out bandwagon books, which ape the style, themes and tropes of a hit.
The chief executive of the Society of Authors, Anna Ganley, says writers are 'up in arms'. Did she coin that phrase? Creativity has always 'trained' on the work of others.Andrew VincentWestmancote, Worcestershire
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