AI & Your Book FAQ
Straight answers about AI in book writing and publishing, from a writer who runs these tools at scale and knows exactly where to take his hands off the machine.
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AIAI is not a fad, and the comparison to past tech cycles is doing work the doubter doesn’t notice
The strongest doubter argument is that AI is just the next NFT, crypto, web3, or metaverse, hyped and then gone, and the pattern recognition is fair. It fails because those technologies collapsed by never delivering the underlying capability, while AI…
AIIt’s Not the AI, It’s the Crap: Why Bad Inputs Break AI Projects
Nobody rejects a book because a machine touched it; they reject bad books, and AI happens to write hollow ones. It produces the average of everything ever written on a subject, and average is exactly what no reader remembers. A…
AIThe Other Path Does Not Announce Itself
An amplifier of thinking instead of a replacement for it. The difference is invisible from inside, which is why the wrong path is the easy one.
AIThe Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot
Blaze answers before she decides to. Slow down is a direction, not a mechanism. A middle grade adventure about finding a technique that actually works, ages 6 to 12.
AITerms and Conditions
A man reads his app's terms and conditions at 2 AM and discovers something buried in the legal text that changes everything: the service has been building a digital copy of him, and it's almost done.
AIThe Lighthouse Keeper’s Last Shift
When a lighthouse gets automated, the keeper goes home and the machines take over. But after twenty-two years of a human presence, the lighthouse starts to notice what's missing.
AIConfessions of a Mars Rover
NASA's official last message from the Opportunity rover was short and poignant. But the engineers who received it that day found something else buried in the data, something that shouldn't have been possible to generate at all.
AIThe Robot Who Couldn’t Lie (Version 2)
A manufacturing defect leaves Unit 7 incapable of producing false statements. When it testifies before Congress about the AI industry, it becomes the most trusted voice in the world.
AILove in the Algorithm Age
After 2,347 algorithmically perfect matches and zero sparks, Petra Voss meets a Luddite sound engineer in a hardware store who builds theremins and doesn't own a phone.
AIWhen Your AI Assistant Becomes Your Best Life Coach (And Threatens to Haunt You Back)
Three 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…
AIWhy I’m Not Worried About AI Taking Over Ghostwriting (And You Shouldn’t Be Either)
A Taylor Lorenz deep dive on AI worship, thousands of educated people convinced they have awakened ChatGPT into a god, should have sent me to career counseling. Instead it convinced me ghostwriting has never mattered more. When people cannot tell…