A Novelette
by
David Jibson
This story will never see publication by traditional means. I conceived and wrote it using material derived from transcripts generated by Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which I prompted to behave as a fictional, self-aware assistant called “Turing”—named after Alan Turing and his famous, though often misunderstood, “Turing Test,” which my fictional AI is purported in the story to have passed (perhaps).
At present, the use of AI-generated material in literary fiction remains unacceptable to most publishers, largely because of unresolved questions around authorship, originality, and responsibility. When it comes right down to it, those questions; who is speaking, who is accountable, and what it means to create are what this story is about.
I am not suggesting that writers or publishers should embrace AI, or even use it. What we all need, however, is a clearer understanding of how these systems work and how to live alongside them, because live alongside them we must—all of us.
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David K. Jibson 