By bbc.com
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 05:58:00
Novelists fear artificial intelligence (AI) could take their jobs away, according to a report.
It turned out that about half of them said AI could “completely replace” their work.
Clementine Collett from the Minderoo Center for Technology & Democracy (MCTD) at the University of Cambridge surveyed 332 authors for the report.
“Novelists are widely concerned that generative AI trained on vast amounts of fiction will undermine the value of writing and compete with human novelists,” she said.
The report found that 97% of novelists were “extremely negative” about the idea that AI could write full-length novels.
About 40% said AI had already matched the income they received from other work to fund their novel writing.
Dr. Collett, who published the document in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of Work, said: “Many novelists were unsure whether there would be interest in complex, long-form texts in the coming years.”
Meanwhile, many authors said they found books that…
