@estherbirdbooks She has been an unbelievably good sleeper from birth, so I don't think I'll get more time that way. Maybe I really do just need to get up early. 🙃
We’re living in a time where people will do anything to look original except actually be original. Everyone wants the aesthetic of authenticity without the responsibility of it. Everyone wants to be seen as a writer, a thinker, a creator, without ever sitting alone in the dark and wrestling with a blank page until it gives up a pulse. But the truth is, if your words aren’t yours, then neither is your reputation. Most folks don’t care about plagiarism. They treat it like a shortcut, a harmless little theft, or even a compliment. But as an author, I care. I care because your voice is supposed to be the one thing no one can take from you unless you hand it over. We’re losing something vital when we stop valuing the work behind the words. And if we keep pretending that integrity is optional, we’re not just cheapening art, we’re cheapening ourselves. It’s a slow rot of moral humidity that weakens the spine of a whole people. A culture that shrugs at dishonesty eventually forgets how to tell the truth even to itself.
Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...
I have so much respect for fantasy authors after trying to write in a new genre. It's just like, "Is this too weird for a fictional world? Is this not weird enough? Have I spent enough time thinking about birds? How do we feel about soup?"
Nicolas Cage says "protect yourselves from AI."
“There is another world that is also disturbing me, and it’s happening right now around all of us — the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only. We can’t let that happen. The job of all art in my view, film performance included, is to hold a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human condition through the very human thoughtful and emotional process of recreation. A robot can’t do that. If we let robots do that, it will lack all heart and eventually lose edge and turn to mush. There will be no human response to life as we know it. It will be life as robots tell us to know it. I say, protect yourselves from AI interfering with your authentic and honest expressions.”