Chapter 217: Human-Machine Feeling

"Just because of this?" Ji Peng scratched his cheek and said in disbelief, "I didn't argue with him because a film and television company was interested in my novel and came to talk about buying the copyright. I didn't want to affect my important business because of arguing with this person, so I calmed down at that time."

"Just because of this?" Qi Fei still couldn't hide his suspicion.

Ji Peng was unconvinced when he heard this: "What? Although it's not much, my novel sold for 500,000!"

Wu Shanqiu laughed when she heard this: "500,000 is not much? It's enough for you to vent your anger, right?"

"I admit this. I figured it out at the time. My work has already sold for 500,000. Facts speak louder than words. Why should I care about plagiarism or not with such a person?" Ji Peng said, straightening his back involuntarily.

"You said your circle is spreading Hao Weiwei's matter. In your impression, before and after you quarreled with him last year, did anyone else express the intention to kill him?" Qi Fei asked.

"Police officer, your question is too broad. This Hao Weiwei is a notorious bully. Whoever he targets will be unlucky."

"Is it all because of plagiarism?"

"Hehe, these are all excuses. Those who lick his stinky feet say he upholds justice. Only we humble little authors know that he just uses the banner of reporting plagiarism and inferior works to suppress new authors who are competitive with him. However, you can't reason on the internet. This Supreme Himself successfully established a sharp critic persona for himself, plus those who follow him, it is definitely an internet gang. As long as he speaks out that this author or work is not good, the other party is generally difficult to turn over.

I am lucky that the editor didn't leave me, and I was lucky to be spotted by a talent scout to be adapted into a short drama. There are quite a few people in our circle who can't stand the cyberbullying of him and his followers and changed their masks or platforms to write." Ji Peng talked endlessly about this matter, and the dull state just now was gone.

"I don't understand. This Hao Weiwei himself is not a famous author. Is his word so influential on the internet?" Wu Shanqiu asked.

"This beautiful police officer, that's because you haven't written and don't know the tricks here. Of course, his garbage articles can't be popular, but he is particularly good at reporting other people's works. For example, reporting me for plagiarism. As long as it is reported, the platform has to supervise it. Fortunately, I am upright and not afraid of shadows, and I can stand the verification. Indeed, there are many people who have plagiarism, water writing, etc. He reported it, and the other party's work was taken down. Sometimes he doesn't just report it himself, but also incites those followers to report it. Originally, the author still had a chance to appeal, but we little transparent new authors, how can one person fight against so many people? Even if the work wasn't taken down, everyone had no mood to continue writing.

Moreover, more and more authors were victimized. Ten spread to a hundred, and more and more people dared not speak ill of Supreme Himself on the internet. He is truly a hooligan among hooligans!" Speaking of this, Ji Peng seemed to remember something, "Speaking of which, I read the latest chapter of that book 'God of War.' This language style is actually not like mainstream web novels... He doesn't call himself a cyber killer, right? Actually, I want to say that his language style is particularly like AI-generated."

"AI?" Qi Fei was amused by Ji Peng's words, "Worthy of being a writer, the imagination is okay. Although I know that everyone has been discussing AI technology very hotly recently, if you want to say that the one who killed Hao Weiwei is AI, sorry, I can't believe you."

But Ji Peng looked serious: "Recently, many novels written by AI have appeared on the platform. I have encountered a few. After reading more, I will find that AI's style has its own characteristics. It's hard to describe. It's just that feeling of being logical and absurd. In short, it's very different from what we real people write.

These two articles gave me this feeling. How should I put it? There is a perverted sense of death. The language looks quite concise, and there is no excessive rendering, but it just makes people feel creepy after reading it."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Wu Shanqiu agreed impatiently, "Your description is so accurate. I just said how it feels strange to read."

Qi Fei looked at Wu Shanqiu unhappily: "Don't tease. That article clearly describes the process of the murderer committing the crime. If the text is AI, could the murder also be AI? You don't want to say that the cyber killer is still a humanoid robot, right? We are solving a case, not writing a sci-fi novel!"

Wu Shanqiu pouted: "Of course I know the murderer is a living person, but the feeling Ji Peng said is what I want to say. Doesn't Fei-ge have this feeling?"

Qi Fei frowned. He was asked by Wu Shanqiu because he couldn't deny that Ji Peng's "post-reading feeling" about those two articles was correct. He also had an indescribable sense of horror when he read it at the beginning, but every sentence in it felt very plain, without deliberately rendering a terrifying atmosphere.

Qi Fei pondered for a while and looked at Ji Peng: "Can you write with AI?"

"This, when AI writing software became popular in the second half of last year, I tried it out of curiosity. To be honest, I think it can't replace human writing at present. Those things it generates look like that at first glance, but they can't stand scrutiny."

"Hmm, so I want to understand, from your experience, is it possible that the two things released by the murderer were generated by AI?"

"Uh..." Ji Peng hesitated. He thought about it seriously before answering, "Anyway, if I were to use AI to write, I couldn't make AI write such content. You asking me this makes me feel that this matter is even more terrifying. Because this style is indeed very like AI, but the content is much more organized than what AI writes.

I think there are two possibilities for this matter. Either this person is a master of using AI, and he can make AI generate anything he wants, or he is deliberately imitating the style of AI writing."

"Oh!" Wu Shanqiu clapped her hands when she heard this, suddenly enlightened, "No matter which way, it is perfectly covering up his writing style!"

Ji Peng nodded in agreement immediately: "You are right. The language style of this author is like a person's fingerprint... everyone is different..." Speaking of this, he reacted and looked at Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu back and forth, "Ah! So the murderer is also an author?"

Qi Fei looked at Ji Peng, expressionless: "It is not ruled out that this possibility exists. He is like you, an author." He emphasized the word "author" when he said it.

At this moment, Wu Shanqiu's phone rang... ===== CHAPTER 218 =====