At a time when generative artificial intelligence has sent shockwaves through global publishing, Estonian author Lilli Luuk remains strikingly unfazed. Nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Literature, her novel 'Ööema' (Night Mother) is set against the haunting expanse of Estonia’s bogs and unearths painful secrets of Soviet occupation and terror through an old milk churn buried by women decades earlier.
\n\n"I don’t feel a threat about artificial intelligence. I think real literature will always be written by humans. That’s my opinion," Luuk said in an interaction with CNBC-TV18. "I think humans’ emotions and feelings are something which you can’t do technically. I think it stays."
\n\nWhile debut writers face a growing trust deficit in an era of automated text, Luuk views the technology with calm detachment.
\n\n"I think it’s more a threat to translators, maybe, because it’s cheaper to translate by artificial intelligence," she observed. "But I, as a writer, I really don’t care very much about AI. I like to write myself."
\n\nAs for the influx of machine-generated drafts, she noted, "I think it does bad to the readers, because I don’t like reading something which is written by AI. And as I said, I really don't…
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