AI 'help' for writers takes the novelty out of novels, research shows


Dialogues, jokes, plot twists – AI can deliver instant ideas for fiction writers. And yet research shows that while it may be good at writing jokes, AI-supported fiction tends to be lacking in innovation. — Photo: Christin Klose/dpa

LONDON: Fiction writers who use artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots end up churning out narratives that are more alike than those penned by people, according to a team of UK-based academics.

Researchers at the University College London and University of Exeter found that when AI output was added to fiction, the outcome was stories that "decreased in novelty, overall" as these tales ended up "more similar to each other than stories by humans alone."

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