Could the next great novel be written by AI (and would you even be able to tell)?
THE SO WHAT
If readers and critics can’t reliably distinguish LLM-written prose, the economic value shifts from sentence-level craft to voice, brand, and distribution. Publishers and platforms will need provenance standards — or risk their catalogs becoming a commodity blend of human and machine output.
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