José Saramago believed that writers lived inside their books. The time is coming when, instead of people, algorithms manage and order by machines wander among the virtual pages of literature.
The creation of an instrument like ChatGPT for writing has become a commonly used tool in many academic fields. The arrival of AI threatens to turn Flaubert's pretension, Hemingway's certainty and even José Saramagos's poetic image of books into ancient history, says the author. The experience of reading - and we all know that - is unique and unrepeatable not only as an aesthetic pleasure or a means of learning, but as a way of appropriating stories, characters, of acquiring information of all kinds, he says. The writers who live inside the books leave on those bound pages ways of seeing life, of interpreting reality, which are usually the fruit of an expressive need and, also, of a desire to communicate to us a peculiar vision of a world, he writes.