A.K. Browne

Representation: Susanna Einstein at Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency

[A.K. Browne @authorakbrowne]

@AlessSpaulding Killin’ it! 💪🏻

[A.K. Browne @authorakbrowne]

@rrreadsbooks The way I preordered so faaaaaast 😍🧟‍♀️🙌🏻
Congrats you two!

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

freaking the hell out about this one….

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

So excited to be a part of the reveal for @JoSalazarAuthor’s brand new cover for IF WE SURVIVE THE NIGHT, available for preorder at all major retailers, out August 25 from @SourcebooksFire 🖤

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

CHILDREN. NEED. BOOKS.

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

well, I didn’t expect that to blow up lol. But if you write MG or YA and are looking for an anti-AI agent, 🙋🏼‍♀️

[Kimberly @books4kimberly]

Please, please, please do not run other people's work (those you're critiquing/beta reading/freelance editing for, or anyone's work) through an AI checker.

The system may literally be then using that person's work! & they are trusting you w/their words-something very precious!

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

Excited to be offering a query critique as a prize for this year’s #PosterPitAwards!

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

Beyond excited to finally share the news I’ve been teasing since November: my first book deal as an agent! I have endless praise for Jo, but suffice it to say that these THREE upcoming novels are going to change the way the world thinks about zombie media forever. 🧟‍♀️🖤

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone.

And it's making you a worse person because of it.

Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would.

That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear.

It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on.

Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one.

The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started.

Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product.

This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens.

Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing.

You're right. They're wrong.

Even when the opposite is true.

[A.K. Browne @authorakbrowne]

@rrreadsbooks

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

1% of people arrested by ICE have been accused of sexual assault while 24% of Trump’s Cabinet, including Trump himself, have been accused of sexual assault or have personally visited Epstein Island. And that’s just what’s been publicly released and reported, with millions of documents and emails still hidden.

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

spreading some love today with a free query critique 🥰💘 to enter, just follow me, rt this post, and comment. I’ll draw a name tomorrow 💌🫶🏻 #WritingCommunity #amquerying

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: We’re seeing economies around the world — including in the United States — where extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and, in a sense, drive authoritarianism…

That is a direct outcome not just of income inequality, but of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver — the failure to deliver higher wages, the failure to rein in corporations.

The point was just made about antitrust. Antitrust in the United States is such a foundational bedrock value — not just because the ascent of monopolies creates abuses of corporate and market power, but because there is a level of market concentration and corporate consolidation where a massive company can become so large that its consolidated power rivals that of nation-states.

In democracies, we have elected leaders. But when massive corporations begin to consume the public sector and gobble up public spending, they start to call the shots. And we’re starting to see this with some members of the billionaire class throwing their weight around in domestic and global politics.

So it is of the utmost urgency that we get our economic houses in order and deliver material gains for the working class. Otherwise, we will fall into a more isolated world governed by authoritarians who also do not deliver for working people.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: At the Munich Security Conference, @AOC just delivered an extremely powerful statement:

"In Democracies we have elected leaders, and in massive corporations that begin to consume the public sector, they start to call the shots and we’re starting to see this with some of the billionaire class throwing their weight around. It is of urgent priority that we get our economic houses in order and deliver material gains for the working class or else we will fall to a more isolated world, governed by authoritarians that also do not deliver for the working people."

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Rep. McGovern on the SAVE Act: "I have news for Republicans, Americans don't want to be saved by you, they don't want you screwing up the next elections... Republicans have looked to find fraud, and you know what they found? Someone is more likely to get struck by lightning than to vote illegally"

[A.K. Browne @authorakbrowne]

@rrreadsbooks @writingdaywksp Get ‘em Renee! 🙌🏻

[Renee Runge (CLOSED to queries) @rrreadsbooks]

I have 6 more slots open for 10 minute pitch sessions TOMORROW starting at 9am PST! 🤩✨

[meghan @deloisivete]

Sorry dinner will be late, the Jump to Recipe button was broken and I'm still scrolling through Mackayleigh's personal and deep history with green beans

[Matthew Valdez, Megibow Literary @MLA_Matthew]

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