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Ken Liu AI freedom essay

Ken Liu on AI and Freedom

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Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Melanie Walsh

“Borges. Stanislaw Lem. Not explicitly about AI but language and communication and breakdowns of both. More on the nose, I enjoyed discovering just this week @kyliu99.bsky.social's writing about immediate AI futures: future-sf.com/fiction/1700/ www.chinatalk…”

“iirc Ken Liu has some nuance www.chinatalk.media/p/ken-liu-on...”

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Ted Underwood: Meanwhile Borges is in a library in Tlön smiling slightly at the notion that nothing made out of mere words could be cooler than an android.
Ted Underwood: How can we ever forgive Silicon Valley for giving us A Young Lady’s Illustrated Companion instead of this:
Ted Underwood: Illustrated Primer, forgive me.
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Established AI field signal Development 14d ago
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Character.AI microdrama launch

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there's a twist | TechCrunch

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Mark Riedl Melanie Walsh

“More “microdrama“ news, this time from Character.AI. They’re trying to make storytelling TikTok-sized, infinite, and interactive. techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/c...”

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Melanie Walsh: More “microdrama“ news, this time from Character.AI. They’re trying to make storytelling TikTok-sized, infinite, and interactive. techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/c...
Mark Riedl: More “microdrama“ news, this time from Character.AI. They’re trying to make storytelling TikTok-sized, infinite, and interactive. techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/c...
Tuhin Chakrabarty: My instagram is full of graphic , above 18 microdrama AI slop
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