AI and the creative arts -- SF got there in 1955

There’s been a lot on British tv news about the concern among artists et al that they will be ruined by the competition of Artificial Intelligence.

That was a sub-plot in Robert Conquest’s A World of Difference - published in 1955. In the end it turned out ok because the computer lacked the stuff of genius, so that only “hacks and phoneys” would be driven off the market. It remains to be seen whether things will work out so conveniently in real life.