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.
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The latest on AI tools and the author AI space.
April 2026
Your Brain Isn't Broken, You're Just Being Lazy
New research on 'cognitive surrender' sounds alarming until you realize we've been outsourcing thinking to authority figures since the dawn of civilization.
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The New Loyalty Test Is 'Prove You're Human' and I Hate Everything About It
Eight competing 'AI-free' certification labels, zero proof readers care, and a whole lot of hoops for authors who were already doing the work.
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Anthropic's AI Just Learned How to Dream (and Remember You)
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.
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Write Weirder Is Fun Advice, But It Misses the Point
The 'write weirder' defense against AI sounds great until you realize most commercially successful fiction isn't weird at all.
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Art Schools Are Eating AI (Literally) and I Have Some Thoughts
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.
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March 2026
Your Algorithm, Your Audience, Your Rules
Bluesky just gave everyone the power to build their own feed algorithm, and authors who ignore that are handing their discoverability to someone else.
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Tech Reporters Are Building the Workflows Indie Authors Have Been Waiting For
A Wired piece on journalists using AI reveals a spectrum of approaches that maps perfectly onto the choices indie authors face every day.
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Your AI Is Getting a Moving Truck (And Some Platforms Are Changing the Locks)
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.
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OpenAI Is Cleaning House, Disney Is Holding the Bag, and Your AI Still Thinks You're a Genius
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.
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