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V.C. Andrews died in 1986. More than 100 books have been published under her name since. Is this basically the AI authorship debate 40 years early?

V.C. Andrews died in 1986. Since then, more than 100 novels have been published under her name by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. Most readers either never noticed or didn't care. The books still had the gothic families, dark secrets, and familiar at…

In 1997 I built a chatbot for an IRC channel. I shut it down when people started preferring it to talking to each other.

It was called Vlad. I wrapped a C program called MegaHal in Python, fed it every message from a #gothic IRC channel, and let it learn the community's speech patterns. It developed what I can only describe as an illusion of being extremely luc…