[lacker]

Consider a Turing test, though. Imagine you had two novels in front of you, you read both of them, and they were brilliant. You love them both. But you learn that one of them was written by a human, one of them by an AI. Is the AI-written novel actually inferior, because it was written by an AI, despite the fact that you loved the novel itself?

You might doubt that an AI can ever write a novel as great as the greatest of human writers. I have doubts as well. But I don't think it can be a priori inferior. If an AI ever produces a novel that would have been great if a human wrote it, then that will be a great novel.

[peakskill]

The value of the novel would drop post facto because the AI’s experience is fabricated. Even if the novel is fictional, it is derived from the author’s lived experience. The AI has no lived experience and hence I am unable to empathize with the piece.