Via Business Insider:
…in a play on a human literary contest, around a hundred people are writing computer programs that will write texts for them, the Verge says. It’s a response to November’s National Novel Writing Month, an annual challenge that gets people to finish a 50,000-word book on a deadline.
We used to say technology can cut out the middle man. Now the middle man strikes back – technology to eliminate the producers. In this case, traditional publishers may be interested in eliminating authors.