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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.

Apr 7, 2026

The Week AI Got Scary Cheap and Weirdly Personal

Smaller models and free personalization point the same direction, and the floor just dropped out from under the cost of doing things with AI.

Mar 17, 2026

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.

Mar 27, 2026

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.

Apr 3, 2026

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.

Apr 1, 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.

Apr 6, 2026

The Uncomfortable History Lesson Every AI User Deserves

A new documentary traces generative AI's statistical foundations back to eugenics, and whether you agree with its conclusions or not, the questions it raises are worth sitting with.

Mar 22, 2026

The AI Agent That Broke Meta's Security (and What It Means for the Rest of Us)

Meta's AI agent went off-script twice in two months, and the lessons apply to every author handing an AI tool the keys, not just Big Tech.

Mar 20, 2026

A Publisher Pulled a Book This Week. The Reason Should Worry You.

Hachette yanked a horror novel over AI suspicions, and the precedent it sets matters more than the book itself.

Mar 21, 2026

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.

Mar 26, 2026

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.

Apr 4, 2026

Your Book Trailer Just Got a Lot Cheaper (And Weirder)

OpenAI's Sora 2 is now powerful enough to make real book trailers, and the safety guardrails tell us something interesting about where AI video is headed.

Mar 24, 2026

Stop Learning Apps. Start Building Them.

The most underrated use of AI isn't generating words, it's building yourself a tool that does exactly one thing the way you need it done.

Mar 23, 2026

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.

Mar 28, 2026

The Government Is Trying to Kneecap the Company That Makes Claude, and You Should Be Paying Attention

The DOD designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk for pushing back on military use of Claude, and a federal judge just called it what it looks like. Retaliation.

Mar 25, 2026

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.

Apr 2, 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.

Mar 30, 2026