J. Michael Straczynski, executor of the Harlan Ellison estate, spent a full essay this week defending a decision that never needed defending: running a ChatGPT-generated response to “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” in the new solo edition of the story. What he produced instead was a case study in how badly the “AI will never produce anything above mediocre” crowd misunderstands the actual argument.
