Blog analysis finds AI-assisted Horst novel shifts toward static description
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Jill Walker Rettberg published a blog analysis comparing Jørn Lier Horst's AI-assisted novel Den siste saken with two earlier books in the same series, written before ChatGPT. She found that passages classified as AI-assisted use more nouns and adjectives and fewer pronouns and verbs, leaning on static setting descriptions and clichés such as humming, quiet and heavy air, while the earlier novels conveyed setting through character action. Horst has said he used ChatGPT only for research and sentence-level editing. Rettberg argues that even this level of use changes the text itself.
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Jill Walker Rettberg compared Jørn Lier Horst's AI-assisted novel Den siste saken with two earlier books in the same series and found the AI-classified passages use more nouns and adjectives and fewer pronouns and verbs. She reports that AI-flagged sections lean on static setting descriptions and clichés such as humming, quiet and heavy air, while the pre-ChatGPT novels conveyed setting through character action. Horst has said he used ChatGPT only for research and sentence-level editing, and Rettberg argues that this level of use still changes the text itself.
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