Literature and IA: "There Will Be More Authors than Readers"

La Silla Vacía

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Every literary generation has a right to its own fatalism. For decades, the death of the novel has been publicly declared at the hands of cinema, the death of the physical book at the hands of screens, or the death of literature from natural causes. Almost fifty years ago Roland Barthes signed the death certificate of the author’s figure. But since then, the authors, stubborn or ghostly as they are, have done nothing other than resurrect, appear…

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In the face of novels produced, assisted or hybridized by the AI, writers oscillate between fascination, denial, panic and the need to invent new rules of the game. Do we have to see the end of the myth of the author, or on the contrary a way of redefining what really makes literature?