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Big Shiny Robot: AI and the soul of storytelling
Why a computer can never generate the kind of story that truly matters.
There are few things I find more thrilling than a great story well told. Whether film, novel, comic book, epic poem, painting, cave drawings, whatever the medium that is employed, well-told stories are magic. In a day and age of generative AI—where soulless tech-bros want to rob you of the beauty of stories and creation by convincing people that these stories are possible at the press of a button thanks to their climate-destroying plagiarism machines, built wholly on the stolen art and stories of others—it’s important to know why great stories are important.
The best stories are told with…
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