ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
I Asked AI What My Brand New Novel Is About
Turns out I didn’t even write it!
Like every writer, I’ve been noodling around with AI. What can it do? What can it not do? How afraid of it should I be?
First, I asked AI to write an essay about Trump’s trial in the style of various people. I started with myself, and it nailed my views and style pretty well. I was impressed and frightened it knew so much about me. (Ask AI to describe your work, if you dare!)
Then I started asking it to write in the style of all kinds of people — first a journalist friend of mine and then a quirky collection of people with vastly different voices and views:
- Dave Barry
- Queen Elizabeth
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Tucker Carlson
- Peggy Noonan
- Thomas Jefferson
- Charles Dickens
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Stalin
- Hitler
It was a fascinating exercise. AI knew the difference between all of them and produced essays “by” each person in seconds. It flat-out refused to write about Trump in the styles of the last two people in that list, however.
