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100-150 word summary of Ken Liu's Article

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What AI is: Large language models are like Swift’s book-making machine—weighted dice that mimic patterns—not understanding minds. Their success is striking, but it doesn’t reduce human intelligence to a mere illusion.

Rejecting nihilism: He rejects “authors are just remix machines.” Meaning still comes from human intention and choice.

AI as collaborator: Using Sudowrite/GPT-3 showed that selecting, guiding, editing, and revising by the human author is what shapes the story. The machine is a partner and prompt, not the source of meaning.

Folktale analogy: As folktales evolved through communal variation, today’s AI can be a new weaving thread in collective storytelling.

Where responsibility lies: Even when AI “writes,” direction, meaning, and accountability remain with humans.

Big picture: AI is both technology and a kind of magic—a "harness" that can lift writers and readers, expanding creative possibility when used well.

In short, AI can be a co-author and catalyst or analysist, but humans set the aims, supply the meaning, and bear the responsibility.

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The first thing I saw is the tone of the story. We can not deny the fact that every authors always have their tones or thoughts before they write something to us, same as the one we just read. This author criticizes a lot about the usage of AI in novel writing field and comments on how the story just comes from the combination of every tales in the world.

At the beginning, it might be boring for some people because it includes a lot of facts and specific terms. The interesting part goes to the middle part which we tried to prompt and write the novels with AI. “I can’t live with that” is the phrase that most memorable to me. It is understandable for a great author to feel the tasteless of AI writing skills, even though they have the brains of every famous authors in the world. Last part, mostly talk about what he think and what will happen in the future by leaving a comment “What happens next?”. There is no correct answer to this. However, it encourages you to think about this problem or topic more.

I recognized one thing that the author describes the characteristics of a good tale. It is the value of passing those stories and belief through generations. It might be true or fake story. However, it gives us some of the morals that we related. On the other hand, AI-generated stories can not write a story with a good moral. They can write but do not know the purpose of this writing. In the end, I agrees with the author on this point.

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(I've not yet read the whole article)

The world is using AI, even for story making. Although it might make sentences quick- he says it's not a good idea.

According to a professor, the professor calls one ignorant when one doesn't refer to a genious or studying while writing a story, poem, or any other type of writing. People don't think or try to study anymore to make paragraphs.

The writer starts to ask AI to make a story out by giving several prompts to make some sentences.

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The article portrays modern AI language models as a kind of magic in their ability to craft convincing stories and texts. Ken Liu highlights their remarkable versatility, which is capable of producing essays, poems, and even stylistic imitations in various voices. Yet, he emphasizes that despite their power, AI systems cannot replace the distinctly human role of choosing, shaping and imbuing stories with intent. Rather than viewing AI as a rival, Liu suggests we embrace it as a creative partner, one that expands the boundaries of storytelling while reaffirming the irreplaceable contribution of human authorship.

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The Magic in the Machine. What does this title mean? What is magic? This might be an absurd question. Magic is something that we humans don’t fully understand. Maybe that’s why we call it magic. We live in the day of science, but AIs like ChatGPT still feel mysterious. One might be tempted to regard them as magic. They are like black boxes. But in reality, they are only cold and mechanical. So, where’s magic? It is humans that create magic. It’s like seeing colors. Do objects have their own colors? I don’t know. What I know is that we see colors from things. We readers see magic from texts. Texts are nothing but sets of strings. But they had been enriched and given meanings by us through histories and cultures. Authors and readers have collected text samples like picking up fruits in local markets. In this entire process, we have collected magic.

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This is the article that focuses on this question. "What is meaning of making story with machine(LLM)"

he thinks there are two types of magic in this article. The awful one is machine can make plausible story automatively. He thinks there are no soul and they are just imitating. And the other awesome magic is that the power of writing is making people think of some subjects.

Also he is curious about that Is there really difference between writers and machine? Because both are writing by using some other's works. he couldn't answer this question.

To sum up he conclude that we can see LLM as two perspectives.

1. it is monster that destroy our intellegence and soul by making us stop thinking

2. it is context chain (like encloldiphia) accumulated cotext of all human and history of the world.

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Ken Liu explores how AI tools like Chat GPT intersect with human storytelling. Indicating parallels to historical fantasies of mechanical writers, Liu argues that while AI can mimic patterns in language, it lacks understanding, intention, and consciousness. Through a creative experiment co-writing a fairy tale with GPT-3, he illustrates the strengths and flaws of text which is generated by machine highlighting its imaginative potential but also it is banal and having lack of coherence. Liu situates AI storytelling within a broader literary tradition, noting that all authors draw from a collective cultural lexicon. Rather than fearing AI’s influence, he suggests that we embrace it as a tool that expands creative possibilities. Storytelling, he insists, retains its magic when guided by human intention. Ultimately, meaning emerges not from the machine alone, but from the choice writers make in shaping, editing, and collaborating with it reminding us that human agency remains at the heart of art.

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As the AI emerging, the paradigm of the writing will change. The author introduces some skeptical ideas such as end of the authors. Some people argues that because of the principle of those AI, it can only reproduce something old. Some people states that these kinds of writing can not make creative writings.

However, The author suggests the opportunity of collaboration with AIs, "Sudowrite". The author emphasize that there is no something brand new, which points out that human beings also study old literatures so that they can mimic them. So the author says that the the most important thing in writing is selection and connection between old stories, not making plausible story.

In this perspective, the program gives the chance of selection to human beings, which makes human can truly write the story. It shows that AI can be a good co-author, or helper for writing without threatening human authors. In short, humans will set the certain purpose and AI will help them to achieve what they want in field of writing.

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The author describes the similarities of the mechanism of human intelligence and AI models(very refined plagiarists), working like an wondrous drafting engine in Gulliver’s Travels.

His curiosity goes on with how he can make a story collaborating with AI. By giving instructions step-by-step, he specifies the characters and creates a fairy tale about a princess, robot, and a concern troll. By 'Prompt. Select. Edit. Write.', he edits and completes the story written by the large language model.

The author also points out that the procedure of making his fairy tale with the generative model is somewhat simliar to the procedure old fairy tales are made. He claims that his fairy tale is contributed by countless authors, such as mes Joyce, Sappho, the Brothers Grimm . . .. So are the old fairy tales that are 'born in anonymity through an oral tradition, passed from lips to ear.'

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Ken Liu writes about how artificial intelligence like ChatGPT can sometimes feel magical, especially with how they can instantly create poems, essays and stories. However, they do have limits. Like the fabled goldfish's memory of three seconds, AI cannot remember things long-term, and it repeats and uses patterns from texts it has already gone through. There is widespread worry that AI could undermine the value of human creativity. Liu, however is not focused on that fear, but rather on the idea of what stories machines could tell. To explore this, he writes a fairytale together with AI about a trapped princess, her robot savior and a concern troll. Through countless steps of writing, prompting and editing, the final product is a strange but nostalgic tale. He writes about how we need not only be fearful of AI. We could learn to co-exist, and find the magic in its interpretation.

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This article is about AI writing new stories. AI can now write a new story by using keywords that we give. Ken Liu shows us how to use AI to make new stories through this article. The AI made the just like a human, and it was interesting to read. After Ken Liu introduced this new story, he says that some people still says that AI made story is different from stories that people made, but we should try to use AI as a useful tool.

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Generating AI came out and it is applied to various fields. Among them, the main interest of the author is what kind of story machine can tell. The writing machine in Gulliver’s travel works just like AI. Spinning the dice in random way and people who have no knowledge can easily write a book. Some say that human mind works the same. Human intelligence is just an illusion, and we are writing the most probable word calculated based on parameters we have. The author could not take this, and he tried to writhe a story with AI tool. He gave simple words or sentences, and AI generated a story. However, it was not enough. The description was robotic, and contexts were forgotten. Human had to participate writing in order to make a reasonable story.

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In the article, it start to tell a fairy tale. A story about a princess trapped in a tower, and a robot coming to her rescue. They work together to defeat the 'concern troll' and gain freedom. It is not just a story, but creation. Because, this story made by AI and Human together. Ken Liu points out that it is not a single author and this is a collaboration between human and AI.

AI is a tool that imitates and recombines existing texts, but when humans add intentions and emotions, it becomes a new story. Therefore, the author argues that writing is not just a combination of symbols, but a magical process of meaning creation. People have been writing in many languages until now. Even in the age of AI, this will not change. Writing is still an act of meaning and creation.

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In this article, Ken Liu said "I’m interested in only one thing: what kind of stories can machines tell?". Unlike most people feeling interested in AI's working ability, he just want to talk about AI's ability to create the stories. He think AI makes stories based on enormous amount of data it has, so the stories it makes are very boring and incomplete. He highlights that stories made by AI are only completed when people support them. But this does not mean Human has better abilities for all skills of writing. For example, AI can make combination of text through its vast data. So, the bottom line is that if human not depend on AI but make harmony with AI, the stories they make can surpass anything either AI or human alone make. We do not need to see AI as a independent thing, but have to see it as wonderful tool we can use for supporting our ability to writing.

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Nowadays writing machines like Chat-gpt is widely used. Someone say that because of the writing machine, the authors are dying. But Ken Liu has only one question 'What kind of stories do they make?'

Ken Liu explain writing machine compared to the random dice in the movie 'Gulliver's Travels', and it has more sophisticated dices.

He suggests the perspective that the machine just pretends to have intelligence and somehow human also pretend. But he doesn't think so and check whether the meaning of the story is real or just fantasy.

He made story with AI throughout some processes.

And he thought that making story with AI cannot take away the intend, emotion and meaning from author. This kind of story has several authors and this makes authors as readers.

He saw the possibility that making story with AI can be interesting and vital way. He thought the magic we have can be continued.

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First, he introduces the writing machine described in Gulliver's travels to explain how the LLM works. And from the fact that LLM works really well and humans think similar to the LLM, he suspect than intelligence is just an illusion recombining and imitating prior things.

To test this hypothesis, he write a fairy tale named "The Princess and the Robot" with AI. The story is based on Rapunzel. In summary, it is about the story that robot rescue the princess traped in the tower from concern troll who belives that it is protecting her. He sometimes suprised by interesting phares, but generally it was old and not so creative. Finally, the author claims that humans write with purpose, intention and emotions and the magic in AI is not everything although it can be a good partner.

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The era that technology can think and write with their ‘artificial’ intelligence like human is like a magic. There are many discussion on what kind of future this technology will lead to. As storytellor, Ken Liu was curious in which kind of the stories this machine can tell, how and how much it will differ from what human write.

He gave prompt and direction of the story to the machine, and it returned with choices of words and explanation. Then, they cooperated to finish this story by repeatedly editing and writing.

After it’s done, Ken Liu thought it was nothing new and had no difference from what human completely write. For this story, he can’t conclude how many writers involved and how much he contributed to the final story, which is like other stories that also use words from what these writers read before.

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Ken Liu tried to test the AI's ability to create a story.

But firstly, he questioned how it actually work. He explained that it works by suggesting significantly weighted randomness words such as developed drafting engine in Gulliver’s Travels.

Then after he typed some fundamental storyline, it offered many options the way the story could be written. Most of them are smooth, but some part, it felt like from classic famous books, or someone's writing on the internet.

Finally, He completed the story with the AI: "The princess and the Robot." But there was nothing new actually.

The AI kept us think about what is the difference between imitation and creativity.

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Magic in the Machine is the work written by Ken Liu to illustrate his thoughts on artificial intelligence regarding the story creation field. Many people believe that AI or other advanced technology machines could help writers generate stories and potentially replace humans.

Seems like Ken Liu didn’t really agree with that; He tried to write a story with the help of an AI machine, starting by giving the machine a prompt and letting it generate a story. After getting the story, he asked the machine to describe some specific words from the story. Finally, the story he got is the composition of many worlds’ famous existing stories. He concluded that although we have advanced technology cannot replace humans’ thoughts.