Overview
- He said he now turns to ChatGPT for quick facts but checks its answers against other sources.
- He stressed he has not used AI to write any of his novels and said readers can spot machine-written prose.
- To show its flaws, he cited a reply suggesting “ellipsoid” as a word to describe a potato’s shape.
- In a Times Radio interview, he called the tools a “dangerous friend” and urged keeping them at arm’s length.
- The Times placed his comments in a wider industry fight over AI, reporting publisher warnings and a £1.1 billion Anthropic settlement last year.