Let us have a quiet word about artificial intelligence. Not a shouting match. Not a Twitter pile-on. Just a civilised cup of tea, a biscuit, and a small amount of perspective.
Every few weeks I see it again:
"AI is not writing."
"AI will destroy fiction."
"This is the end of real authors."
At which point I glance at my word processor, my spelling checker, my grammar assistant and my auto-saving cloud backup… and raise an eyebrow.
Because unless you are chiselling your manuscript into stone with a...