The Use of AI in Novel Writing Produces Repetitive Literary Works
A recent academic study has found that fiction novel authors who use AI applications to assist in writing their novels end up producing works that are more similar than those written by authors themselves.
According to the study, conducted by researchers from the Universities of London and Exeter, adding the output of an AI application to a fiction novel results in a decrease in the originality and uniqueness of the novel overall. Novels written with AI assistance resemble each other more than those written by humans alone.
“If the publishing industry expands to publish AI-written stories, the result will be less unique and more similar stories,” said Anil Ananthaswamy Doshi and Oliver Hauser, the researchers who conducted the study.
The study, whose results were published in the journal “Science Advances” and which involved around 900 people, a third of whom were writers and the rest critics, coincides with the efforts of creative arts and media institutions to address the expansion of the use of generative AI.
