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Can AI make true art? Local sci-fi author Ted Chiang says no

Can AI make true art? Local sci-fi author Ted Chiang says no

Update: 2025-10-131
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Generative AI is the source of a lot of angst. 

For students, for workers, for artists. 

We’ll talk to Bellevue-based science fiction writer Ted Chiang about how he thinks about it as a writer.

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Can AI make true art? Local sci-fi author Ted Chiang says no

Can AI make true art? Local sci-fi author Ted Chiang says no

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