One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

My status RN: Chronic AFK and anxiety. Why: We are moving out of a red state. Plus, USA spiraling towards fascism. Writing: Yes. It is all that keeps me sane. Reading: Not nearly enough, too busy stimming with phone games and putting out fires.

#romance #plotidea free to all (might already have been done): MC: Wealth management specialist. LI: #Billionaire who got rich by robbing other billionaires. Plot: "Find out who the billionaires I robbed stole the money from, and help me get it back to them. Anything left over goes to charity."

Describe your taste in men using 4 fictional characters:

#romance #writers 💖 Weird stuff happening just cuz, and somehow chars just roll with it. AKA #crackfic, cuz laughter is often key. If you can't laugh in love, what's even left? ❌ Rich MCs. I get it, it's fantasy, but it bugs me too much to enjoy. Much rather meet "comfortable" LIs than "rich".

To my #aromantic friends: Showers help the hives. All the (platonic) love. ❤️

#writers #writesky #skywriters #romance Listening and cackling as wife goes "ARGG FFS" at a book waiting for these two characters to get together... 😂 "That's cute you guys." YUP www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sa...

12 reasons you shouldn’t use AI to write and edit stories write.ellipsus.com/edit/2719fc6...

Listening to @ckohwrites.bsky.social read aloud tourist posts to r/Malaysia is hilarious. "Is it possible to climb Mt. Kinabalu without a guide?" "Uhhhh..." "I have climbed many mountains in UK and..." "PFFT!!" 🤣🤣🤣

Snrk. Siiiiigh.😆 My apocalypse skill: Dying. Probably dying. 😀 But if I survived that... um... doing repetitive stuff. Like sharpening knives? That's relaxing!

Billionaires get rich by stealing from the poor pass it on

This. This is why I follow several authors who showcase mature relationships and good communication in their books. (@ajsherwood.bsky.social, @jennifercodymm.bsky.social, any other #mmromance #bookreccs?) Also, I love #crackfic because it makes it easier to take it less seriously. Send reccs please!

This is frankly just... beautiful. #resist #resistProject2025

LOL you are not alone... @ckohwrites.bsky.social you have a twin. As the Person in our pair I must remind you both: Resting is work. Thinking is work. Researching is work. Reading is work. They're all work and that means you're working on your #writing! ❤️

Just want to amplify this. Please don't use this word unless it's in a serious discussion about #racism. I know in America it has been romanticized. It ain't romantic, though, and once you know, you know. #writers and #readers, please don't perpetuate it. Thank you @opreroma.bsky.social ❤️ 👇

2nd surprise #casualracism in as many days is making me post this: Y'all. The word is Roma or Romani. The other word, the one that starts with G? That's a fucking ethnic slur. If you're throwing it around casually, stop. And if your parents named you that, name changes are a thing. We can do better.

God dammit. They got me. 😂 theonion.com/fbi-uncovers...

#writers, #skywriters, and #booksky: I see too many of you stuck with Google Docs and Microsoft Word/365 and other solutions that often package generative AI or reserve the right to train AI on your work. There is #Ellipsus. No AI, queer AF, an ethical company, and it has folders. ellipsus.com

I love this so much. Pretty please? ...and special request from my #aromantic peeps (or maybe just from me): if there's ANY romance, tag it. Even if it's not a romance novel. Surprise romantic subplots make me

Re: #spsfc: I have been told that I should approach the situation with a bit more gentleness now that they have booted the fascist. After the past year, I don't have a whole lot of gentleness for "fascists?! in MY scifi?!" shocked pikachu face. But, I know what #runbyvolunteers is like. #Tips below.

THIS is what #spsfc needs to do. It's not hard. 👇

#nazisareforpunching not platforming - I'm hearing sad things about #spsfc: they're platforming Devon Eriksen, a guy whose dog whistles are air raid sirens and whose twitter account looks like, well, that one relative at Thanksgiving who makes it misery (CW: fascist rhetoric): x.com/devon_erikse...

Also, how the FUCK was I not following @chucktingle.bsky.social on Bsky?! Fixed that RIGHT now, OMG.

Chesterton's Fence: Before you can remove something, you must understand it. Found it at www.science.org/content/blog... and it struck a chord: so often we want to remove that which annoys us without understanding what it's there for. Plus, the writing is damn eloquent.

I actually wrote to Payhip to ask their stance on spicy stuff in case the US went full #handmaidstale. Their response is that they're absolutely fine with anything the payment services Paypal and Stripe will allow. Which is honestly better than I thought. They're UK-based.

Imma quote my own post so I can include both in my profile pin: bsky.app/profile/wint...

Attn #marketers & #editors of #booksky: If you use AI art in your online profile, we're going to think "this person will use AI elsewhere as well" and some of us do not want our works mauled by the Mediocre Plagiarism Machine. Do not be surprised when we do not follow you back. See rant. #deathtoai

@ckohwrites.bsky.social Look! Do you have that one?

@ckohwrites.bsky.social Proof that long haired dudes are hawt.

I DO need a #vulture, thank you very much! Vultures clean the ecosystem and are good for the world. Plus, there's nothing like seeing them sitting on street lights during a rainstorm. Big dang #birds.

Let me know the answer, @ckohwrites.bsky.social is a book hoarder. 😂

Pretty sure @ckohwrites.bsky.social's brain did this to her last night 😂

Part of the reason I love my wife @ckohwrites.bsky.social is because of her ability with language. Just casually tosses out the male equivalent of a bodice ripper in general conversation "Yes but not as much as the pants rippers" 🤣 which paints so many *pictures* in my head 😂👍😍

This is amusing and sweet and as an #aromantic it makes me cackle. I don't have any exes I hate enough to put a name on but hey, feed a #wildcat? Heck yeah. They'd support that.

Suchir Balaji wrote about the #ethics of #ai here: suchir.net/fair_use.html Some of it is applicable to #writers:

#skywriters #booksky #writers Found this while reading the news today: www.usatoday.com/story/entert... - their FAQ says they will sell self-published titles for authors publishing through Draft2Digital or IngramSpark. Exciting times! If they replace KU and my fave authors join I am GONE from 'Zon.

I've had several editors lately tell me 120K is the top limit for debut epic fantasy. Everything else should be fewer words.

I am drumming at my brain for ideas. I have the most ideas for scifi, but I don't waaaant to do scifi! Adding a gothic twist to a story about chill shouldn't be hard, given the Year Without A Summer was literally the birth of gothic literature, but my brain is not being forthcoming. SPIT IT OUT! AA!

LOL, I was about to reply, "You should get the cup I got my wife!" then I saw who posted 😂 www.teepublic.com/mug/7161230-...

The sad thing about my sanity is, I have to try this. ...but even that caffeine will not be safe if we tariff China, where all the caffeine is made...

Kinda. I'm reading @aletheafaust.bsky.social's Sex Wizards books because of something they said on here, and frankly I'm enjoying the hell out of it. I learned long ago that authors who I don't share beliefs with are likely to write stuff that upsets me. Social media is a good way to figure that out

if a human did not write it, draw it, photograph it, etc., then the result can only aspire to (and often fail to achieve) idle beauty - not literature or art - and it will never be worthy of sharing space on a shelf or anywhere else except, perhaps, a museum of expensive failures

@tavialark.bsky.social "Drinking from the Fountain of Youth seemed like a good idea at the time." 😂👍 Glorious.

Gave it a shot but don't wanna post the results 🫣 but I can say with absolute certainty that I should FINISH MY DAMN STORY BEFORE I START A NEW ONE. Epilogues are so f'n hard. ...If I don't finish, that means the story never ends, see? 😁

Hi @mazmaddox.bsky.social, welcome to bsky! I'm utterly a fan of your ability to string mad elements together over the course of X00+ pages, then bring them all together into a symphony of screaming hilarity/bizarrity that MAKES SENSE and also makes you weep with joy. Kevin is the best. #mmwriters

Proud of this moment. #mmromance #spicyromance #steamyromance