Curious Reads: Will AI replace writers like me?

The striking Hollywood writers won some battles, but AI isn't going away for authors.

Hello friend, Liz here.

#1 Today’s “top of the fold” story is about writing and robots—that is, though the Hollywood writer’s strike has ended, the agonizing over whether writers will be replaced by artificial intelligence has not.

For one, movie studios have held onto the right to use AI in particular ways, including training artificial intelligence models based on the writing of their human writing partners, though writers gained unlimited credit and veto powers over the use of such technologies.

But the existential threat of AI for creatives like myself still looms. And it’s not going away.

Read “My A.I. Writing Robot” from The New Yorker by Kyle Chayka