The Great Fiction of AI
by Josh Dzieza from The Verge - All Posts on (#61KYF)
On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and she was behind schedule. The color-coded, 11-column spreadsheet she keeps open on a second monitor as she writes told her just how far behind: she had three days to write 9,278 words if she was to get the book edited, formatted, promoted, uploaded to Amazon's Kindle platform, and in the hands of eager readers who expected a new novel every nine weeks.
Lepp became an author six years ago, after deciding she could no longer stomach having to spout corporate doublespeak" to employees as companies downsized. She had spent the prior two decades working...