I looked at how writers were using genAI on Reddit, and it seemed horrible! All the fun parts about writing were replaced, turning the "writer" into an A/B tester.
Brainstorming is FUN.
Coming up with characters and backstories is FUN.
Crafting sentences is FUN.
Sure, it's also work, but it's fun!
People writing the most unhinged fanfic known to humanity.
I yearn for the Colin Trevorrow version where Finn inspires a stormtrooper rebellion 😭
The book cover for August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN against an iridescent metal background.
"a thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream of a book"
@rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
"furious and staggeringly beautiful"
@amalelmohtar.com
"a battle cry of a book; read it, and rise up.”
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN!
Buy now: https://geni.us/metalfhe
This is equivalent to, I dunno, Nike claiming that Michael Jordan endorses their products and using his likeness without any kind of advertising contract.
The question I would have for a dev editor who uses AI: "Why would I pay you for this?"
I'm all for using ethical efficiency tools like macros, wildcards, and text expanders in developmental editing.
But the thinking, the craft, the expertise, the customized support—that's why writers hire human editors, not a plagiarism machine that spits out generic and frequently incorrect advice.
That depends on what happens in Alecto the Ninth 👀
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
"Famous tiktoker hates 3rd person POV in romance and so do some other people, but there are also people who don't."
I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended
Just one more data center bro, just one more data center and we'll have AGI, I swear. Just one more data center 🤪
‘We Couldn’t Say the Title’: @littlebadger.bsky.social on the Words Banned at a Utah University pen.org/darcie-littl...
Maybe they just went for economic austerity and fired all the people whose job it was up keep the jungle back 😂
Indeed there seems to be a problem with the book section of Amazon (at least) and sale links don't seem to work. I'm sure this will be fixed reasonably soon, and in the meantime, a reminder that Amazon is but one retailer, and my books are available many other places, including your local bookstore.
I thought this was normal??
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
Also, I hate to say it, but turn off the internet 🙉
For me it was after my PhD!
(For writing, anyway.)
Also at that time, I abruptly stopped playing Angry Birds when I lost all my progress, and it was like my creative mind was freed from a prison.
There is a conversational writing style that's like nails on a chalkboard to me. Some very popular writers use it. Absolutely no shade on them, but I just can't tolerate it.
Assuming no glaring quality control issues, it mostly comes down to writing style. If I don't vibe with the writing style, I don't read the rest of the book, no matter how much I like the premise. This is hugely subjective, of course.
don’t doomscroll.
read a chapter instead.
While I agree with you, do you think the guy in the screenshot knows how to find the button?
Nope, it's the usual AI summary format, but it would've pulled information from the reference links.
Is that not a Google AI summary?
Dark honey coloured liquid (tea) in the pitcher.
Step 8: remove the tea strainer and let the tea cool at room temperature before putting it in the fridge
The pitcher full of amber coloured liquid. The tea is in the strainer on top.
Step 7: let it brew for a few minutes
Water being poured from the jug into the pitcher.
Step 6: pour boiled water over the tea and into the jug
(Let the water cool a bit before adding to the tea to avoid more bitter flavours)
Black looseleaf tea in the tea strainer
Step 5: put the tea in the mesh strainer
