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Sudowrite: The Rise of AI Tools in Publishing. BY WYATT BANDT
“If Scrooge had been a man of a weak and timorous nature, he might have been at once scared to death by the apparition of his own face, looking out of a window at him with an indescribable menace. But Scrooge was not frightened easily. No, he was a man of a sturdy countenance.” If I told you that this was an excerpt from A Christmas Carol, you’d likely believe me. It’s about Scrooge, captures his sour and haughty attitude, and most importantly, feels like Dickens. The narrator’s speaking style feels the same, and the vocabulary is archaic by modern standards. But it’s not Dickens. It’s a reflection of him created by the AI program Sudowrite, something that started as a passion project because Amit Gupta and James Yu wanted to see what was possible for writers who used AI. Amit Gupta left his previous career in 2014 to begin writing sci-fi, joining a writer’s group where he met James Yu. Several years later, they began working together on what eventually became Sudowrite. 54
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