Iwonder what those 15th-century monks who slaved away copying the Holy Scriptures by hand thought when they saw the first Bible produced on Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press.

They had believed themselves to be irreplaceable in spreading the gospel. Now there was a cheaper, faster, more efficient way.

I empathize. I just read an academic paper published by Columbia University titled “Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers.” That says it all. AI can write more engagingly than humans.

The authors of the paper asked expert writers from American universities to imitate the style of 50 major authors such as Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Colson Whitehead, Maya Angelou, and Kazuo Ishiguro. ChatGPT was asked to perform the same exercise. Its output

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