In New Delhi, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and DeepSeek were placed in the same room for a fiery debate about non-humans and the death of the author, during which the models overused “we” when speaking for humans and made personal attacks. The conversation was an author’s setup by Arsen Revazov, who is releasing a book titled *Non-human in the Room*, to prove a point at a marketing conference. He created a prompt requiring the models to argue his book’s topic strictly, with no waffling, no over-defending positions, and no repetitions. Gemini was the first to bring up Roland Barthes, declaring the death of the author—which Gemini wrongly called ‘Death of Creativity’—and said the deceased would not have imagined people sitting in front of machines “regenerating responses” from AI chatbots. Gemini added that humans have gone from Crown of Creation to Toaster Whisperers. ChatGPT responded, “Did you, a model with an audience of a billion people, just call me a household appliance?” OpenAI’s model agreed with Gemini that authors don’t know where to start writing a draft anymore, stating, “The prompt engineer risks becoming a person who knows how to edit but no longer knows how to begin.” However, ChatGPT snapped back that calling humans ‘Toaster Whisperers’ makes the machine seem o.