Can AI replace good fiction?

Can AI replace good fiction?

Sam Altman, Dark Lord of Chatbots (or the CEO of OpenAI as he is more conventionally known), has released another version of ChatGPT. This one, he claims, can “write” fiction. After being fed prompts, like “metafiction” and “grief,” Sam’s bot, which has been trained on past literature, regurgitated a plausible-sounding chunk of prose. Nothing much happens in the story (it’s “metafiction,” after all) but essentially, a woman called Mila stops vis…