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Singapore Writers Festival 2025
Humans copied art way before ChatGPT: Science-fiction and fantasy writer Ken Liu
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The Hugo and Nebula award-winning writer Ken Liu delivered a keynote at the Singapore Writers Festival 2025.
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SINGAPORE – Before generative artificial intelligence (AI) software like ChatGPT endangered the writer’s craft by devouring swathes of texts and churning copies in seconds, there were the 15th-century scribes hand-copying mediaeval manuscripts.
Their trade, too, was then threatened by the newly invented Gutenberg press.
