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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 18/08/2026

Got it--thank you so much for the clarification, Beth!

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 18/08/2026

Essentially yes, because both GPT and these detectors rely on LLMs, so it's the same tech.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 18/08/2026

This is honestly distressing. We're being held captive by slop machines designed to detect the output of other slop machines.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 18/08/2026

"A ship's bell AND diver's lantern is terrible"--maybe. It's a WIP. I didn't want to use any of my published works so as not to feed the detector something it had quite probably been trained on.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 18/08/2026

That's why I only fed it a 300-word sample (the recommended minimum length as per their own guidelines) :)

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 18/08/2026

Oh dear. Has the Oxford comma also been demonized now?

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

Absolutely--but at the same time, it's great to hear from you, Beth!

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT (cont’d) AI slop machines excel at pattern matching, but what they can’t do for you is analyze the author’s _intent_. You hit them with too many sentence fragments or em dashes, and they’ll claim you’re AI; they have zero idea whether you really _meant_ it or not. 🧵5/5

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT (cont’d) The most troubling thing about this is, Originality AI is apparently used by agents & publishers alike. Dear agents and publishers, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET: AI “detectors” are slop machines same as the slop machines whose output they purport to analyze. 🧵4/5

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT (cont’d) Originality AI also offered me some “helpful” suggestions on how I could “improve” my style. These suggestions, along with my response to them as a two-time Nebula and one-time Compton Crook nominee, are displayed below. 🧵3/5

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT (cont’d) The picture above isn’t a case of “false positives.” It’s a case of ALL sentences in a 300-word sample being classified as either ~100% AI- or ~100% human-written *depending on a single punctuation mark*. 🧵2/5

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 19/07/2026

When *Tower of Mud and Straw* first came out, I got a lot of flak for using “modern” dialogue in a fantasy novel. “Glad” to see people haven’t changed their minds. #Odyssey

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 08/05/2026

Not really. Then again, a lot of us aren't on anything else either. It's just clean, distilled depression—for everyone, free of charge. Times are shite.

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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Repost to make it die faster

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L. Marie Wood @lmariewood.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

OMG Just LOOK AT HER!!!!!!!! a.co/d/0eLogAx0 #slipstream #mmf #PsychologicalHorror #romanceelements #scifi #youneedthis #mustread

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 18/03/2026

“Upon revisiting it, many of us felt that <The Last Crusade> has held up better than any other in the Indiana Jones saga; surpassing even the original”—ABSOLUTELY. Thank you! I’ve been saying this for years, but people always write it off as ramblings of a Connery fanboy :)

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 14/03/2026

That’s the way. We need to raise the quality bar—though for that to happen, publishers need to stop being money whor … sorry, stop focusing solely on profit for a moment and return to their original mission. To shape the public’s taste, rather than pander to people’s worst reading tendencies.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 01/03/2026

Means the world to me. I’m happy the layered structure worked! I tried letting the private and the political occupy the same room—I'm an émigré too, so there’s a lot of private grief in this one, but also first-hand (unfortunately) observations of propaganda & nationalism …

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 01/03/2026