Thursday, December 27, 2018
The Farm, by Charlie Jane Anders
The protagonist in The Farm is a writer. He is tasked with writing a news story in such a way that it doesn't trigger a critical mass of artificial personalities in an artificial crowd hosted by an AI. I had never thought of this, and it's highly plausible. And it is quite possible for it to be set up in such a way as to frustrate a real author. But AIs are already capable of writing the stories, so I think the author here is superfluous and the dialog could all be inside a machine.
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