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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

The Anthropic Settlement Claims Deadline Is March 30. Here's How to Check If You're Owed Money.

If your books were used to train Anthropic's Claude AI, you may be entitled to roughly $3,000 per title from a $1.5 billion settlement, but you need to file your claim by March 30.

Feb 27, 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

The Authors Guild's 'Human Authored' Certification Is Now Open to All Authors. Will It Actually Matter?

The Authors Guild expanded its 'Human Authored' certification to all U.S.-published authors for $10 per title, but the program's binary framing may do more to stigmatize AI-assisted authors than to help readers.

Mar 4, 2026

10,000 Authors Published an Empty Book at London Book Fair to Protest UK AI Copyright Plans

Nearly 10,000 authors published a book of only their names at London Book Fair to protest a proposed UK copyright law. The protest isn't anti-AI. It's asking for something AI-positive authors should want too: consent.

Mar 10, 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

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

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

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

Spotify Launches Weekly Audiobook Charts in the US and UK

Spotify now publishes weekly audiobook rankings by genre, giving authors a new discovery channel on a platform with over 250,000 audiobook titles.

Feb 28, 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