Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy and science fiction author of the Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series; completed Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. Publishes through his company Dragonsteel, posts lectures and updates on YouTube, and has taught creative writing at Brigham Young University.
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Their wordsFantasy can be, at its most simple, defined as the genre where anything can happen.
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Their wordsYet in order to succeed as a literary genre-to change from stories whimsically imagined, to stories repeated around hearth fires, to stories that fill the pages of novels in a satisfying and profound way, fantasy must adopt structure.
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Their wordsWith these three definitions in place-fantasy being fiction, which is impossible, which is presented with intentional fantasy aesthetics-we can finally approach the purpose of this essay.
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Their wordsThe most important thing to understand is that the process of creating art makes art of you.
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Generative AI models lack the capacity for personal growth or change through the act of creation.
Their wordsIt cannot be changed. It can be changed by feeding it more copyrighted material, but creating the new work will not change it. It will not learn. It will not grow. It will not care.