Will Chatbots Replace Human Authors?

Oh, wow. An Artificial Intelligence can clump words into sentences.
Paragraphs even. HUMAN AUTHORS ARE ABOUT TO BE REPLACED BY AI CONTENT WRITERS! So say the people I see on Internet and social media. Techies cheerfully predict a new era of copious cheap content. Students hope AI will make writing their term papers easy. Creatives worry that it will end their careers. 
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And every now and then, someone kindly posts on Twitter a little sample of this new product: prose written by AI. A “romance” scene in which two cliched lovers accomplish a “fiery embrace” with their respective lips. An account of a zoo visit stating that the lions are “big and powerful”. Bland, unremarkable sentences pasting obvious adjectives on to predictable nouns riding hackneyed verbs to bald, unsatisfying narratives. Secondhand imagery or none at all. Manufactured metaphors stirred instead of shaken, linked all wrong and clanking like skeletons trying to dance. 

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