The Problem With AI Chatbots In Literature

An Ultimately Misguided Approach To Reading.

Imagine being able to talk to Shakespeare’s Henry V about leadership in his seminal St. Crispin's Day speech, on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt; or conversing with Leopold Bloom on his views on musical representation in James Joyce’s Ulysses; or asking Elisabeth in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice about what she truly thinks about Mr. Darcy, once a…