{"slug": "gullible-and-ridiculous-dave-eggers-on-why-no-one-will-read-ai-novels", "title": "‘Gullible and ridiculous’: Dave Eggers on why no one will read AI novels", "summary": "Author Dave Eggers dismissed AI-generated novels as 'gullible and ridiculous,' arguing that readers will reject them because they lack human experience and emotion. Eggers expressed frustration with the tech industry's constant push for new technologies but noted that San Francisco remains fundamentally unchanged.", "body_md": "# ‘Gullible and ridiculous’: Dave Eggers on why no one will read AI novels\n\nSource:\n\n[Financial Times Technology](https://www.ft.com/technology)The author is frustrated by the constant adoption of new technologies but says San Francisco is the same ‘hippie town’ it was\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gullible-and-ridiculous-dave-eggers-on-why-no-one-will-read-ai-novels", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/gullible-and-ridiculous-dave-eggers-on-why-no-one-will-read-i7x1", "published_at": "2026-07-18 04:00:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-18 05:36:39.530214+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Dave Eggers", "Financial Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gullible-and-ridiculous-dave-eggers-on-why-no-one-will-read-ai-novels", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gullible-and-ridiculous-dave-eggers-on-why-no-one-will-read-ai-novels.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gullible-and-ridiculous-dave-eggers-on-why-no-one-will-read-ai-novels.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gullible-and-ridiculous-dave-eggers-on-why-no-one-will-read-ai-novels.jsonld"}}