There are a lot of folks (like me) who are looking for work and can do this job better.

there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats

Vajra puts the problems with AI for our industry (and artists and workers in general) in no uncertain terms. Well worth a read, particularly if you or someone you know is still on the fence when it comes to AI in the arts.

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

We will get paid less, many of us will be forced out of the field and/or the industry, generations of new writers will find their development stunted and their early-career opportunities limited, and ultimately, the quality of the work available to readers will suffer.

Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.

Every creative person knows damn well that we're all talking about generative AI when it comes to this issue and that spellcheck is not part of the discussion. I heard this "but we'll have to ban [conflated technology] too" argument years ago, and I wasn't impressed by it then.

I just filled this out and I'm very concerned about answers and questions here which seem to be trying to conflate generative AI with spell check. Gives off a very squirrely vibe if you know what I mean.

SFWA is doing a survey on LLM use in the industry. You don't need to be a member to submit. Writers/artists/humans need all the advocates we can get, and I hope we can encourage SFWA to take a strong stance. www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

👇 only an infinitesimal and disorganised part of human output is online to be stolen by the people training gen 'ai' models but even if it were 100%, LLMs /still/ can't do any of the stuff claimed for them. they can't think, reason, understand, create. It's like believing a blender grows the food

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I couldn’t be more thrilled and grossed out by the cover for my debut novella, “Can We Look Directly At It, Just For a Second?” coming next year from @lethepress.bsky.social . @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social did a fantastic job capturing the cosmic body horror!! CW: bugs

I guess we haven't spoken loud or clear enough.

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Batma Returns is a Christmas movie.

Thinking about how starkly LLMs expose the contradictory narratives of capitalism. Specifically, "success = hard work = genius" and "technology will give us all a life of leisure."

The reason you see AI pushed so hard in products, ads and promoted posts is that they know people don't WANT to use it but they are desperate to recoup on their millions in investments. They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.

We just need a few more subscribers and we'll be able to raise our fiction payment rates in the new year. Help us out. We're so close!

Mulder and Scully doing the meme before it was a meme.

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

What a great headline

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

My most recent newsletter's out buttondown.com/crosshatches...

You should be required to read @edzitron.com's entire body of work before being allowed to post on LinkedIn about AI

Like @lpkindred.bsky.social, I went back to to school while working full time and it is NOT for the faint of heart, it is so hard. So donate if you can! Let's get this gofundme over the finish line 🙌

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation laist.com/news/arts-an...

For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors Today, I wanted to shout out @tropicaleccentric.bsky.social whose novel, "Andújar: the Robot Gentleman of San Juan" is a delight

do i have this about right? university admins claim that they know (somehow) that AI is “the future” and that we have to train students to have the skills to work in environments that (will) require AI, but ...

Thank you for this innitiative!!! Sending solidarity ❤️✨ Spreading posters like this may also amplify reach bsky.app/profile/iris... cc @olivia.science

If you’re looking for something to read this weekend, I’ve published 13 short pieces this year with 2 more coming soon. I figured I’d make a thread of just a few of my faves that are free-to-read. (You can still find my complete eligibility post through my link in bio) 🧵

I admittedly would love a Cummie. I have a handful of awards eligible stories this year if you feel so inclined. Perhaps with y'all's recommendations and a...stroke of luck, I can achieve it... I appreciate any and all consideration! 💜🤘💀

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Great thread.

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At a certain point narcissism loops around and becomes indistinguishable from a humiliation fetish.

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