It won't be a sudden thing. The socially necessary labour time for a novel will drop precipitously and mysteriously for a while until it comes out that a whole bunch of stuff is partially written by GPT-3 and partially by a human. Fully handwritten works will become an idiosyncrasy, and will take on a character of their own, a collection of William Morris types still slavering over every syllable.
Is it good or bad? Depends on if the automation frees people or renders them redundant.
So publishing houses are going to be able to phase out writers altogether, then. What a terrible, beautiful thing to behold.
It won't be a sudden thing. The socially necessary labour time for a novel will drop precipitously and mysteriously for a while until it comes out that a whole bunch of stuff is partially written by GPT-3 and partially by a human. Fully handwritten works will become an idiosyncrasy, and will take on a character of their own, a collection of William Morris types still slavering over every syllable.
Is it good or bad? Depends on if the automation frees people or renders them redundant.