Publication Type
Presentation
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2023
Abstract
In 1982, Roald Dahl wrote a short story about a supercomputer which solves the world's big factual questions in seconds. Next, they used it generate stories and changed the literature scene forever.
Is ChatGPT the cusp of this change?
Benedict, as both a fiction writer and librarian, discusses AI's foreseeable impact on authorship and literature, its applications for writing, and possible implication on classification, credits, and collection with regard to literature, especially fiction.
This presentation features insights from interviews with four writers, talks about the strike by the Writers Guild of America, and about the citing and crediting of AI-generated fiction.
Keywords
literature, fiction, AI writing, ChatGPT, authorship
Discipline
Information Literacy
Publication
LAS-NLB Professional Sharing Session on Artificial Intelligence and Libraries, Singapore, 2023 May 26
Embargo Period
6-7-2023
Citation
YEO, Zhe Benedict.
Writer-Librarian viewpoint: AI’s foreseeable impact on literature. (2023). LAS-NLB Professional Sharing Session on Artificial Intelligence and Libraries, Singapore, 2023 May 26.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/library_research/207
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