What if AI changes writing the way that photography changed painting? By Adam Kirsch. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-writing-style-literature/687536/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ntatl&utm_medium=social
The Atlantic's Adam Kirsch argues AI will liberate literature by automating routine writing, comparing it to photography's impact on painting
The shift could spur new abstract literary movements.
Users objected to the analogy of AI transforming writing like photography changed painting because it overlooks AI's reliance on reproducing existing artistic output.
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I think this is quite likely
What if AI changes writing the way that photography changed painting? By Adam Kirsch. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-writing-style-literature/687536/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ntatl&utm_medium=social

@nxthompson What if everyone stopped making inapt analogies? Photography wasn’t made possible by reproducing the world’s artistic output in order to make derivative downstream images. AI is not merely a “tool.” It is the result of wildly exploitative business practices.