Future fiction will silently include AI writing, economist predicts, citing costly signals
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-12
Continuing the literature-vs-AI debate, economist paulnovosad predicts the new equilibrium: readers will accept that fiction contains an unknown share of AI content, with only a handful of authors paying costly signals to prove they didn't use it. Building on his Gresham's-law argument — AI slop accelerates declining readership and rewards AI writers — he admits this lowers his own interest in reading.
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