BREAKING NEWS: In a press release early last week, the recluse author, Andrew Inscape, defended his latest novel, Love Rebooted. The novel, a departure from Inscape’s typical whodunnit, details the love affair between a female high school teacher and her virtual AI assistant. The groundbreaking novel has elicited strong responses from prominent politicians on both sides of the aisle. Many have lauded the normalizing of these relationships as they are becoming more widely accepted as a romantic preference. Others are calling for the banning of this book, believing that our society’s acceptance of these relationships threatens the future of the human race. But today, in a shocking turn of events, sources at an ASD news affiliate revealed that Andrew Inscape is himself an AI writer. Originally pioneered by MIT students to write mystery novels, this AI entity has published ten titles, including three New York Times bestsellers. The eight MIT students that worked on this project, all now in their forties, claim that Inscape could not have broken the pattern of the genre in which it was programmed to write. Two questions must be asked: with infinite algorithms, can artificial intelligence learn to desire and appreciate love? If so, is that love artificial?