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‘It’s like the wild west’: how AI has rocked the literary world

With authors losing lucrative deals and writers removed from prize shortlists, accusations of AI use are sending shock waves through the publishing industry. Is it too late to turn the tide on machine writing? The romance novelist Coral Hart got her break writing books for Mills & Boon, the publisher of bodice-ripper paperbacks. In 2012, she decided to dip her toe in self-publishing. She felt drawn to dark romance, a subgenre featuring twisted, toxic love stories that was taking off online but that publishers didn’t want to touch. Three years later, things were going well enough that she decid

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Entertainment

Immersive show brings Kyffin Williams’ rugged Welsh landscapes to life

Paintings by one of country’s most important artists have been animated and set to music at National Library of Wales The paintings of artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and David Hockney have been brought to life in all-singing, all-dancing immersive shows in recent years. Now one of Wales’s most important artists, Sir Kyffin Williams, known for capturing the spectacular landscapes of his homeland with layers of paint thickly applied with a palette knife, has been given the same treatment. Continue reading...

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