Claire Nicholls

I mean, nobody...

Nobody batted an eye when just about every musician lost their livelihood through selling sort of CDs when, you know, when first Napster people were pirating music and then they just sort of gave in to Spotify.

Similarly, I just don't think anybody's going to care too much about human authors.

I mean, obviously there's the idea at the moment is that anybody could just sort of type something in and have

have AI do it for them.

But of course, you have to have some talent there to begin with because, you know, a million multiplied by zero is just still zero.

And so I think, you know, the market might be flooded with garbage, but eventually...

I can imagine some intelligent, creative, well-read young person is not going to want to spend their 10,000 hours writing.

It is just going to start producing by working with AI and doing it.

And whether the reader will care, I think not.

Yeah, look, I think it will be very difficult because, you know, obviously, you know, what constitutes originality is putting together the unexpected and that's something that an algorithm can't do.

So on its own, it can't.

But even like, you know, you've seen, say, the filmmaker Darren Aronofsky start to use AI for film.

And, you know, once you get people of that calibre,

um just starting to use ai i i think that's we'll be competing i mean i'm just gonna keep i'm sort of immune because i still write by long hand so um i still kind of um which is just a habit i developed early on and so i there's no temptation for me to use ai when i'm composing because it's

I'm obviously just doing it on a notebook, you know, out of... You know, I don't have a computer with me when I write.

But, you know, I just think it's very short-sighted to imagine that us human novelists won't be competing with, I guess, not AI so much, but cyborgs.

You know, we're all becoming... We're all sort of partially cyborgs now anyway.

Like, you know, you see people...

walking around with phones in their hands.