Roald Dahl's Story-Writing Machine Prediction

In his short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator," Roald Dahl made a grim prediction about machines that could write fiction for humans. The story imagines a device so powerful and efficient that most authors sign contracts allowing it to generate stories under their names, while only a small group stubbornly continues to write on their own. As writers trade creative control for financial security, the machine spreads and squeezes out human competition. Dahl ends with the line, "Give us strength, Oh Lord, to let our children starve."

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