'A computer's joke, on us': writers respond to the short story written by AI

This week has seen writers divided over a story written by an AI model that is "good at creative writing" – at least according to Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT company OpenAI, which is developing the new model. Author Jeanette Winterson, writing in the Guardian on Wednesday, agreed with him, calling the story – which is a metafictional piece about grief – "beautiful and moving". We asked other authors to assess ChatGPT's current writing skills – and what recent developments around artificial intelligence might mean for human creativity. I think the story is an elegant emptiness. I'm more interested by Winterson's suggestion that we treat AI as "alternative intelligence". That makes it feel like a consciousness with which we can have a relationship, but as far as I know that would be like a bird falling in love with its reflection in a window.