AI can write, but without a 'why', it can't live stories

When I found out I'd be speaking at the Beijing International Book Fair on AI's role in creativity and literature, I thought about it — then I asked AI what it thought about it.

DeepSeek suggested: "Think of it like a painter using brighter pigments. The technology expands possibilities but doesn't replace the hand holding the brush."

I don't know if I could have said it better myself. And that's exactly the question — both at hand and in the cloud.