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.