The rise of AI in literature: Why machines can never replace the imagination

Can AI really be called creative? ‘We’ll have a situation not unlike a photocopied page, that creates increasingly dull impressions with each push of the button,’ says one novelist

Jamie O'Connell says human experience will always trump AI

Jamie O’Connell

In the late 1990s, when I was in my mid-teens, fake designer clothes were everywhere. I recall many of my teenage friends returning from sunny holidays with impressive ‘Armani’ T-shirts and ‘Calvin Klein’ underwear with the C and K the wrong way around.