“That is what he said, that I was a pastiche… of things that I perceived from outside in the world and that I could recreate cleverly and make it look like it was a work of art. Isn't that exactly what we moan about in AI now? Because AI does the same. It just scrapes all the data and puts it together so neatly and so cleverly, but it's not original.”

really interesting? Because, and I'm not wishing to suddenly become all lectury about it, but it's so because that is what he said, that I was a pastiche, that it was just a kind of. Of laying on of things that I perceived from outside in the world and that I could recreate cleverly and make it look like it was a work of art. Isn't that exactly what we moan about in AI now? Because AI does the same. It just scrapes all the data and puts it together so neatly and so cleverly, but it's not original. But the reason I call my first novel The Liar was it was about this image I had because I noticed that this is actually how it all works. And in funny enough, Elliot said the same thing I'm quoting him all the time. But, you know, great, great artist Steele was the way he put it. And the image I have for it is teenagers, very often and younger, you practice your signature because it's your logo.…