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Centaur Fiction with Qiufan Chen & Amita Shukla

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Qiufan Chen (referred to as 'Stanley' in the session) discusses with Amita Shukla his multi-model LLM pipeline for fiction writing—using Gemini for long-context novel-length editing, Claude for nuanced language, and GPT variants for ideation—while insisting that trained writerly 'taste' must filter and rewrite every AI output rather than accept it directly. He describes AI as an 'exoskeleton' that augments but doesn't replace authorial intention, illustrates this with his branching-narrative immersive theater production in Hong Kong, and argues writers must craft new hopeful metaphors (solarpunk) to reshape climate storytelling.

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