Post-Artificial Literature

With programs such as ChatGTP, artificial intelligence has reached a level at which it is now scarcely possible to distinguish a text written by a computer from one written by a human being. For example, can you be certain that the text you are reading right now was not written by an algorithm?

This represents a real turning point in the way we read the written word. If we are constantly susceptible to the suspicion that a text has been generated using AI, the distinction between natural and artificial ceases to make sense – ushering in a post-artificial era. Hannes Bajohr discusses how this shift is affecting newspaper articles and academic publications, and how it is changing the way we read and write literary texts.