The Void Ages When we put our art into AI models, we risk losing our cultural history to auto-generated works. We must save human writing to avoid creating this void, says Annalee Newitz IN 800 years, a group of students is sitting in a graduate seminar devoted to an era known as the Void Ages. They’ve read a couple of books and watched some of the two-dimensional, low-resolution media once called “movies”. A few students even assembled devices to experience “video games”. Somebody’s hand shoots up. “I don’t understand why we have so little media preserved from this era. Everything is fragmentary, and most of what we’ve read in this class was reconstructed from probabilities. …