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The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster

Kelsey Piper · 26 May 2026

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  1. If you are unwilling to check it out, you will be wrong about what its strengths and limitations are - and you'll miss that a growing share of the words you are reading are AI-generated.
  2. I don't like it any more than anyone else, but the age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over.

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