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AI Surveillance in Fiction
Surveillance fiction has moved past the watched room: the modern version is about prediction, where being observed matters less than being anticipated.
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Why AI Fiction Is Changing in the 2020s
AI stopped being a premise readers had to accept and became an interface they already use, which removed the genre's need to explain and changed what it can be about.
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From HAL to Modern AI: How Artificial Intelligence in Fiction Has Changed
Fiction's machines have moved from singular characters you could confront to distributed systems with no location, which changes what a story can do with them.
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