{"id":190,"date":"2026-06-28T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=190"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:47:11","slug":"does-ai-mean-the-end-for-novelists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Does AI Mean the End for Novelists?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of my novelist friends are very concerned about the impact of AI on their profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a lot of AI generated &#8216;slop&#8217; is created, will their hard won handiwork disappear in a tide of rubbish? Will readers find it even harder to track down quality fiction? Will publishers, (including those who support self-publishing) as well as writers, become irrelevant?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again there are no easy answers, but I do believe that most people can tell good writing from bad &#8211; of course, if AI writing gets much better, as it must in time, it may be that us poor humans will not be able to compete &#8211; perhaps we won&#8217;t deserve to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a world where, it seems, anything we do manage to publish seems to be treated as fodder for the AI behemoths, to be regurgitated in garbled fashion to anyone with the right prompt, it sometimes doesn&#8217;t seem worthwhile anyway? \u2639\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my novelist friends are very concerned about the impact of AI on their profession. If a lot of AI generated &#8216;slop&#8217; is created, will their hard won handiwork disappear in a tide of rubbish? Will readers find it even harder to track down quality fiction? Will publishers, (including those who support self-publishing) as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}