AI Detection Won't Save You From Amazon, and Neither Will Running Away
A viral Substack post predicts AI detection will destroy indie publishing, but the real problem has never been the robots.
The latest on AI tools and the author AI space.
A viral Substack post predicts AI detection will destroy indie publishing, but the real problem has never been the robots.
New research on 'cognitive surrender' sounds alarming until you realize we've been outsourcing thinking to authority figures since the dawn of civilization.
Eight competing 'AI-free' certification labels, zero proof readers care, and a whole lot of hoops for authors who were already doing the work.
A leaked Anthropic codebase reveals an AI that remembers you across sessions, runs in the background while you're away, dreams to consolidate its memories, and has a secret Tamagotchi pet system.
The 'write weirder' defense against AI sounds great until you realize most commercially successful fiction isn't weird at all.
A student ate an AI art piece in protest, Anthropic's job threat study is built on 2023 data, and the interface problem might matter more than the intelligence problem.
Bluesky just gave everyone the power to build their own feed algorithm, and authors who ignore that are handing their discoverability to someone else.
A Wired piece on journalists using AI reveals a spectrum of approaches that maps perfectly onto the choices indie authors face every day.
Google and Apple are making it easier to carry your AI life between platforms, while Wikipedia and Reddit are drawing harder lines about where AI belongs at all.
OpenAI killed Sora and shelved its adult chatbot in the same week, leaving Disney with a billion-dollar problem and the rest of us with a useful reminder about which AI bets actually pay off.