This is a story in the form of a long-form magazine article, which I think is a neat way to write a bit of speculative fiction. It’s a story about art and machine learning.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. The full text can be found on the author's website, here. Several other works by Ken Liu can be found for free at his website, here. You can also listen to his World Fantasy Award, Hugo, and Nebula-winning short story The Paper Menagerie on the Levar Burton Reads podcast; it's episode 11.

Music: Pump by Gunnar Olsen, New Land by ALBIS, Terminal D by Silent Partner, In Albany New York by the 126ers. All music can be found at the YouTube Audio Library.