Writer-Librarian viewpoint: AI’s foreseeable impact on literature

• Main Author: YEO, Zhe Benedict
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: literature; fiction; AI writing; ChatGPT; authorship; Information Literacy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/library_research/207; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/library_research/article/1212/viewcontent/NLB_LAS_Professional_Sharing___Writer_Librarian_viewpoint___AIs_foreseeable_impact_on_literature.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.