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Teachers are using AI to make literature easier for students to read. This is a terrible idea.
A writer’s voice and style don't just matter to the reading experience, they are the reading experience.
Can we really trust AI, with its racial and gender biases, to adapt a novel like “Beloved” — one that embodies not only Toni Morrison’s lyrical, enchanting style but also the complexities of the Black experience? Plus, emulating an author’s authentic style at a specific reading level with limited syntax and vocabulary is an impossible task. Its arrangement of words and syntax, from the expanded clauses to the ellipsis and dashes, embodies Gatsby’s yearning for the past, as well as our own faith in, and pursuit of, illusory dreams.
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