I’m not a fan of AI. Mostly I wish it hadn’t been invented. But it’s here, and I was teaching writing last week, on a residential course in Devon.

So before I went along, I wondered if there might be a way to use AI - specifically, in this case, ChatGPT - that still leaves us something valuable to contribute as writers.

With London Book Fair taking at the same time, I decided to write a short newspaper story about the future of publishing, as if I had been sent to do a colour piece for a newspaper.