Readers Turn to Chatbots for Custom Fiction as AI Authorship Debate Widens

Readers are increasingly using chatbots to generate personalized fiction, shifting the AI-in-publishing debate from whether authors use the technology to how audiences are becoming co-creators themselves. A new academic study of more than 500,000 anonymized English-language ChatGPT conversations found that more than one third involved some form of fiction generation, including original stories, role-play, fan fiction and erotica.