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Roald Dahl wrote a short on exactly this idea, focusing on novelits instead of screenwriters: "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" A man creates a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in roughly fifteen minutes. One by one, the world's greatest writers are forced into licensing their names — and all hope of human creativity — to the machine.

John, I have an item for this week's Saturday Hot Links in which the AP news service is going to start using robots to write some of their articles. Seriously.