AI Wrote 95 Percent of This Murder Mystery

This story is adapted from Death of an Author, a murder-mystery novella written by Aidan Marchine, a collaboration between author Stephen Marche and three artificial intelligence tools: ChatGPT, Sudowrite, and Cohere. Gus Dupin, walking along the stillness of Stony Lake in the gathering night, recognized the sleek motorboat approaching his dock. A girl in a bright yellow sundress jumped off and sprinted to his mailbox, dropping in an envelope before running back. As she set off into the lake, she yelled "an honest-to-God letter" over her shoulder. Gus Dupin was not accustomed to receiving letters or messages of any kind.