I Want to Be a Machine is Mark Leach's hybrid manifesto, literary memoir, and machine-assisted critical experiment about AI, authorship, and the future of the novel.Rejecting both anti-AI panic and lazy machine-generated "slop," Leach argues that writing was already machinic long before ChatGPT arrived. Genre, influence, cliché, media, corporate language, appropriation, repetition, and literary tradition have always shaped the writer from the inside. AI merely gives the sy...