By Gabriel Bergmoser
Publication Date: 2026-04-02 00:21:00
There’s a secret sense of shame circulating among Australian writers that makes some of us feel a little dirty. The narrative tends to be that no one touches the AI, but that’s not true. Several of my friends will privately admit that they use it for research, spell checks, identifying plot holes, or even sharing ideas. I asked it to summarize character arcs and plot developments, and decided that if a computer could work out exactly what I wanted, I was probably doing something right.
Even that worries me, considering that technology has literally been trained on all of our stolen work, but AI has become so ubiquitous that it is impossible to ignore and difficult to resist. At least no self-respecting author asks to write for him and passes off the work as his own. Right?
Recently an actor friend sent me a script he had written. Given that…
