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- Does the ghost writer possess the spirit of the prose or the ‘author’, what if the ghost writer is a machine, where would the spirit lie then?
- Where does the soul lie, in the ghost writer or the author? would a ghost writing machine be the soul spirit of the text or the human behind it?
talk about the book Ghost Writer by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Definition
A ghostwriter is a writer who authors books, manuscripts, screenplays, scripts, articles, blog posts, stories, reports, whitepapers, or other texts that are officially credited to another person.
In French a ghost writer is call a "Nègre" then changed to "Nègre littéraire", as it was not politically correct. The actual name of the job gives a negative description, it refers to the writer as a slave. Whereas in English it is put more gently as a ghost.
"Digital Ghost"
digital ghost writing, blogs, websites, etc. nothing new, it's still a human writing for another human.
A mechanical Turk gives the illusion that a computer automatically writes the content. But it's still a human.
This is a project called a Descriptive camera, when a photo is taken, it prints out a description of the photograph. One might assume it is artificial intelligence, but no, it's human intelligence.
http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
When a computer actually writes the content based on human input, does he become the ghost? his voice is probably mechanical, so even if the text is signed by a human, we might be able to tell it was written by a computer. The human still gave the input, which might have been given as key words.
Team writing. But one name.
My text for example will say I wrote it in the end, but in fact there might be some heavy input by others.