Local Motion: A novelist who worked inside big tech asks what AI is costing writers
Jenny Williams lived in Ridgway for years, and her parents are there still. These days she writes from Aotearoa, New Zealand. In between she spent about eight and a half years inside big tech, at Google and then Microsoft, including a couple of years on an AI ethics team. It is not the résumé you expect on the back of a novel, and it runs straight through her new one.
House of Liars is what Williams calls a "slow burn literary psychological thriller." Six writers are brought to a remote island to compete for a million-dollar publishing prize. One of the writers is an AI. On the first day, the…
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