Rushdie Dismisses AI Writing Tool as Lacking Originality and Humor; Sees Threat to Hollywood Formula Writers
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Rushdie tested ChatGPT by asking it to write 200 words in his style; he found the results to be "a bunch of nonsense" that no reader would attribute to him
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AI writing tools could pose a threat to formulaic genre writers like those of thrillers, sci-fi, where originality is less important
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The threat could be particularly acute for TV/film writers as Hollywood constantly creates new versions of the same stories that AI could help draft
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Rushdie's judgment of ChatGPT was that it had "no originality" and seemed "completely devoid of any sense of humour"
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The article comes after Rushdie spent years in hiding due to death threats over his novel "The Satanic Verses;" he lost sight in one eye after a recent stabbing attack