Why Do AI Similes and Metaphors Miss the Mark So Often? This is Essay 3 of 22 in the series Why Choose 100% Human Authors, addressed to readers who want to understand what a human author does that a machine cannot and why that difference matters to the experience of literary fiction. The Comparison That Contradicts Itself […]
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Why Does AI Pile On the Adjectives and Adverbs? This is Essay 2 of 22 in the series Why Choose 100% Human Authors, addressed to readers who want to understand what a human author does that a machine cannot and why that difference matters to the experience of literary fiction. The Sentence That Cannot Stop
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This is Essay 1 of 22 in the series Why Choose 100% Human Authors, which examines the specific deficiencies of AI-generated fiction and the corresponding strengths of fiction written by human authors. The series is addressed to readers who buy novels, who give them their time, and who deserve to know what they are holding
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I. The Flood There is a flood upon the literary world, and it does not smell of river water. It smells of nothing at all—which is, perhaps, the most accurate description of what machine-generated prose brings to the page: a vast, odorless, grammatical nothing. I am an independent author of literary historical fiction. I write
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