A Yale Economist Says We Won’t Be Missed. He Forgot the Bread Line.
A Yale economist says AGI will leave literature to people at capped wages, and that we won't be missed. His model leaves out what hungry people do.
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Artificial intelligence and the working writer: what AI genuinely helps with, where it fails, what stays yours, and how a professional uses it without surrendering the voice that makes a book worth reading.
AIAI Has Paid Off Outside Tech. Apollo Is Reading the Wrong Scoreboard.
Apollo's chief economist says AI has delivered zero payoff outside the tech giants. His charts are real, but margins measure who keeps the gains, and electricity took forty years to show in the numbers.
AIChina Is Using Bots to Fan the Data Center Backlash. The Backlash Is Still Real.
China-linked networks have been caught posing as Americans to push anti-data-center messages. OpenAI and X both found them, and both found they got little traction, because most Americans already oppose data centers nearby.
AIThe Society of Authors Signed an Ethical AI Charter, Then Ran From It in Eight Days
The UK's Society of Authors helped write a charter asking for consent, licensing, payment and transparency in AI use. After member backlash, its leadership said no use of generative AI can ever be ethical and pulled out eight days later.
AIHuman-Written Book Labels Are Gatekeeping With a Fee
Publishers can now pay to stamp a human-written mark on their books. Readers want a good read, the writers and artists who care are the ones paying, and a label that ends up on everything will mean as little as…
AIYour AI Chats Aren’t Private: Deleted ChatGPT Logs in Court
A court ordered OpenAI to keep deleted ChatGPT conversations, then upheld handing 20 million logs to the other side of a lawsuit. Here's what that means for Claude users, and how writers and ghostwriters should protect client material.
AIAI’s Black Box Is Getting a Window. Somebody Still Has to Look Through It
A Goodfire researcher argues neural networks are far easier to read than anyone thought. After twenty years running computer operations, here's why I believe him, and why readable has never meant safe.
AI“It Stars C. Thomas Howell. No.” Why AI Gets Stuck in a Loop
I asked Brave's Leo about a movie and watched it insist, over and over, that the 2002 Time Machine starred C. Thomas Howell, correcting itself every time. Why AI models get stuck in loops, where the wrong name came from,…
AIJudge the Writing, Not the Tool: What the AI Pile-Ons Get Wrong
Writing groups have stopped tasting the food and started inspecting the kitchen. A book should be judged on whether it's a good book. Here's what real AI misuse looks like, why a writer who does the thinking still owns the…
AI“People Who Use AI Deserve to Be Castrated”: When the Sentence Outruns the Crime
A member of a big creative writing group wrote that people who use AI deserve to be castrated. Nobody had been caught at anything, and nobody objected. The charge was using software. The sentence was mutilation.
AIA Hiker Used AI to Find a Waterfall. The Forum Sent Her to Hell.
Mention AI in a writing group and you're a thief headed for hell. So I moved the pile-on to a hiking forum, where a beginner let an app plan her route to a waterfall. She had a wonderful day. The…
AIAnthropic Bans Cruelty Toward Claude: What It Means for Writers
Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained and needless cruelty toward Claude, starting November 12, 2026. Frustration, pushback and dark fiction are all exempt. Here's what the rule covers, why Anthropic made it, and what else changed.