Assume an LLM trained on your favorite writer / fiction series was indistinguishable from the original. Would you spend time reading infinite content in that literary universe?

i.e. The Foundation or Dune but the ability to zip backward or forward in the timeline

My resistant reaction reminds me of the Black Mirror ep “Be Right Back” where a woman gets an AI continuation of her dead husband

A question about stories is whether part of what we love is not just its effect but also its origin in a knowable human mind, who becomes a “friend” https://i.imgur.com/npaBipH.jpg