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Originally Posted by herr_oberst

I'm unapologetically a fan of pulp fiction westerns. I think AI could probably write as well as many of the authors that I've come across. But, I wonder if in the future, you could plug in a few parameters and have the AI continue a series of stories from an author, 'in the style of' that would be almost indistinguishable from the original author's style. Imagine AI continuing stories of Travis McGee or Spenser (for hire) Not written by McDonald or Parker but good stories nonetheless with the original cast of characters.

People have already run into that to some degree. Living artists are not terribly happy about having their style copied, but in original work. And the way that it's done today, is that electronic copies of the author's original work are fed into the AI, and once it's digested enough original work, it can emulate the style in new work. So, while it may be "original" from a certain point of view, it was only able to emulate that work after being fed a bunch of other work and then being asked to essentially copy that style. So I can see how there would be an element of "theft" or "plagarism" that doesn't really fit with the old/current definitions.