Pune, Sept. 23 -- The play 'Chauthi Cigarette' presented at the Pune Festival explored the darker side of creative success, focusing on ghostwriting, literary recognition and the growing ambitions of 'Artificial Intelligence' to gain acceptance as an author.
The play portrays a fictional journey in which a book written by an artificial intelligence system eventually becomes a bestseller and even receives the prestigious Booker Prize, raising questions about creativity, originality and the role of technology in the literary world.
"In the present scenario, when allegations and counter-allegations over plagiarism and the use of artificial intelligence are being witnessed in academic, literary and artistic circles, the play becomes particula...