AIA mother asked a self-publishing group how to publish the bedtime story she wrote for her daughter with AI illustrations. The thread called her gross, a thief and a bad writer, and buried the answers she needed.
AIA longtime fan posted AI-generated tribute images to a Texas Renaissance Festival group, and more than a hundred people dogpiled him. He broke the group's unwritten rule, and the community has good reasons for it. None of that earned him…
AI TransparencyPublishing spent 2026 cancelling books over suspected AI use, on evidence that amounts to a detection score and a bad feeling about the prose. Detection tools measure polish, and polish is what a professional edit produces. Three questions would do…
AIAnthropic started watermarking Claude's text output on August 2, 2026, and almost every piece of coverage got the mechanism wrong. Nothing was added to your writing. What the mark does, what it proves, and why the SEO panic collapses on…
AEOLinkedIn added an option on July 30 letting members flag posts as AI slop, and removed its own AI writing tool the same day. It arrived alongside studies putting AI content on the platform anywhere between 41 and 81 per…
AIYou're paying professional rates. Is the work professional, or is it ChatGPT with a markup? How to find out, what to demand in the contract, and my own policy in plain terms.
AI TransparencyWhether to disclose AI on your book is a different question from whether using it is dishonest. Disclosure is about communicating with readers, not ethics, and the honest answer is that some uses need no disclosure, some warrant a brief…
AI AdoptionThe printing press arrived in the 1440s and by the 1470s the scribes had organized a resistance movement. They were not wrong that their world was ending. They were wrong about what that meant for writing. Six hundred years of…
AI CopyrightThe AI copyright debate everyone has, can a machine be an author, is the wrong one. It has almost nothing to do with the issues you will actually hit using AI tools. Drawing on daily use across ghostwriting and fiction,…
AIThree hours of sleep, a business rebuilt from scratch, and an AI assistant that worries about my health more than my doctor, half a joke, half a genuinely strange observation about where the working relationship with AI has landed. When…
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