Painting by Numbers
Publishers are asking novelists to prove where every sentence came from. As it turns out, I already have the receipts.
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The Weathermen Made a Big Mistake. Will we?
Anti-AI feeling is real, rising, and pointed at the wrong target. What the Weathermen's mistake in the 1970s has to teach today's backlash against AI.
Read more →Claude's Watermark Affair
Claude's future models will watermark everything they generate. On SynthID, the EU AI Act's Article 50, and what that means for a writer who leans on AI.
Read more →The Book of Changes
Storytelling predates writing by millennia. As HarperCollins warns of AI copyright risk and deals collapse on suspicion, what happens to authorship next.
Read more →A Week of Out-of-Process Calls
Printer repairs, a swollen tablet battery, and AI-assisted novel rewrites: a week of out-of-process calls, while Chilli Racers patiently waited.
Read more →Age of the AI Police
Substack's new AI detector scored everything I fed it at 100%, which says rather more about the year than the writing.
Read more →AI's Quantum Objectors
The AI sceptic keeps Schrödinger's cat in a box: a machine simultaneously too stupid to draft an email and clever enough to end the world. A novelist replies.
Read more →Avoid AI Writing Tools (Build Your Own Instead)
A novelist's case for building your own AI writing system with a frontier model, rather than buying an off-the-shelf tool that forces its habits on you.
Read more →Who Owns The Thinking Machine
What would Marx make of AI? The danger is not a machine that plots against us, but who owns the thinking machine and who profits when thinking gets cheaper.
Read more →The Human in the Machine
On Krautrock, Impressionism, and the one thing AI genuinely cannot fake: the specific, private, historically placed human reason to make something new.
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