Khaberni - The controversy in the Cairo International Book Fair escalated after discovering novels written entirely using artificial intelligence and published as they are without adequate review and revision by "the author".
Pictures circulated showed that some texts contained internal messages and instructions directed from the "ChatGPT" app to the author about how to construct the plot and characters, in what activists described as a "cultural scandal".
In one of these novels, which is named "Ruh and Eyad", the chat program's response to the author’s instructions said that it would continue the narrative with a focus on the development of the relationship between the two main characters, moving away from the past in favor of the present and future, before directly resuming the story with an opening sentence like: "After they planted flowers in the backyard, the days passed slowly", revealing that the author forgot to delete the dialogue exchanges with the app from the final draft, according to reports claimed by Egyptian media outlets.
The spread of these examples raised concerns in the cultural milieu that some authors might replace talent and literary experience with an over-reliance on robotic writing tools, which threatens the authenticity of the narrative and blurs the boundaries between human creativity and digitally fabricated texts.
