Like everyone else, I’m curious about what the new artificial intelligence (AI) programs can do for us, or perhaps to us.

So in an idle hour recently, I decided to experiment. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands. More from Freep Opinion: AI tools like ChatGPT 'help' authors, but I see literature crumbling around me

For whom the AI tolls?

For starters, as a lifelong reader, I wanted to see how AI might capture the style and content of some of my favorite writers. So I asked Google’s AI program to write me 50 words on taking a bus in Detroit in the style of Ernest Hemingway. Here’s what it came up with: Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

The bus came, late as always. The street was wet. Men waited. Women too. They stood in the grey light

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