Economist: AI's share of fiction likely tends toward the corner solution
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-12
Paulnovosad caps the literature debate with a sharper prediction: since AI writing costs approach zero while verification is expensive, the equilibrium where fiction contains unknown AI content most likely tends toward the corner solution — AI's share going to the extreme. It extends his Gresham's-law and costly-signals argument against Olegimas's disruption thesis.
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