Joke alert: Iain Banks 'used an LLM' to write The Player of Games
JMateosGarcia · x · 2026-10-20
Science writer Tom Chivers jokes he is 'appalled' to discover Iain Banks wrote The Player of Games with an LLM — an obvious AI-community in-joke, since Banks died in 2013; the quip praises the 1988 Culture classic for reading like flawless machine-generated prose.
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