"Read fiction published before 2024": scholar's bleak take on AI-swamped literature
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-12
Expanding on his own thread, Paul Novosad offers a bleak judgment: literature was on a rough road anyway, and the people in charge all but guarantee it is finished as a human endeavour. His one practical rule: to read fiction by humans, find stuff published before 2024. This ties into his equilibrium argument that AI text will swamp human volume, forcing human authors to pre-test with tools like Pangram — while detectors only catch the dumbest users.
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