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Novelist Elif Shafak calls this “the age of anger, anxiety, and AI”, and argues that stories can help resist the apathy stirred by disinformation and a relentless stream of grim news.
Why it mattersHer point is that listening to writers, especially those living through conflict, keeps people from becoming numbers on a screen. Literature, she suggests, can make room for the slower, more layered conversation the internet is not always keen to host.
Discuss: Can literature meaningfully counter AI-amplified disinformation and apathy, or do platforms and their incentives need to change first?
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