The hill I will die on: Fan fiction is real literature, whatever the snobs say

[PATRICK]

4. Immortal "out of copyright" stories

Parodies are still OK for the few that can actually make quality humor. Permission to add to a series is still required but some Like Tarzan are out of copyright. Well policed estate franchises and company owned rights are actually dangerous to mess with. AI slop sludges the shores of the declining readership and the now widely in print "slushpile".

AI the fraud that it is will perish, but Homer, maybe not. AI writing seems emotionally like the strange sewer that goes through the uncanny valley. Erasmus the robot trying to ape Mozart(Dune prequels) had that special psychopathic something, but then he(it) was a mad fan of dissecting humans.