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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You aren't a writer if you're asking a puke machine to spit out ideas modeled after books people like me actually wrote. The EASIEST part of the job is the idea. That's why real writers are asked 1700 times if they want to "go halfsies" on someone else's idea while the writer does the labor.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AI is ruining cute animals for me
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026
Anyway if you're trying to launch an exclusive literary network with just a smidge of AI, I refer you to the observation that a sandwich with just a smidge of dogshit is still a dogshit sandwich.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seriously, the proper response to someone admitting to using generative AI in their writing is “wow it must suck to be so lazy and untalented, have you considered doing something you’re actually suited to”
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shintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just in case I wasn't clear earlier, I will block anyone who talks about watching this show. No, I'm not telling you what to watch. I'm simply saying that if you watch this show I don't want to know or deal with you.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 30/08/2026
Photo of a part of the sticker wall, near the gum wall in Seattle. A large glued poster of a cat holding a sign reads, “A.I. IS DẠTA
& CAN ONLY LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
CREATIVITY IS TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN GO.”
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The question to ask of capitalism is simple: does the right of business to exploit consumers and workers trump the right of consumers and workers to be protected from exploitation? And overwhelmingly, the AI industry's answer is YES - hence hatred of AI becoming an anticapitalist inflection point.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026
"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/08/2026
there are a lot of things on the banned lists that I don't like to read. through incredible personal struggle, I have developed a fool-proof solution: I don't read it.
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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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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Gonna keep telling this story. I watched an hour long "How To Write An AI Novel" how to video out of curiosity and I shit you not, 60% of the video was about how to trick Claude into writing something that didn't look like it was AI. If genAI is a tool, it's core audience uses it mostly for fraud.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/08/2026
Let kids MAKE MISTAKES. Let kids LEARN PROCESS. Let kids STRUGGLE with writing & drawing, figure out what they think & see, figure out how to turn it into words & art with their own minds & hands. When you push "A.i." on them, you're telling them to quit. That only PRODUCT matters, not process.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I keep harping on this but AI “writers” and “artists“ keep showing what unserious tourists they are. People who actually create agonize over adverbs and color palettes and metaphors and gesture. AI people can’t even be bothered to skim their own book once
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/08/2026
In which I discuss plagiarism behaviour, and how very like GenAI behaviour it is.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/08/2026
The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I genuinely lay the blame for some of this on this pervasive online culture of infantilizing grown-ass adults.
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“UwU I’m just a small bean I can’t be exposed to scary naked people I can’t be bothered to just avoid things or hit the hide post button the internet needs to be catered to me I’m 45 years old” this is at your goddamn feet. Grow the hell up.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026
I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/03/2026
Nicely put, but I noticed just now that the point you made in your 300 character post wasn't inescapably all-encompassingly comprehensive in its totality, so I'm afraid it's pistols at dawn
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026
Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Huge thanks to @chuckwendig.bsky.social for this. When I read that "who's going to win the race" comment I was so angry. These fucking shitgibbons churning out "content". These cockweasels stealing everything we've done. I was so mad. So thanks, Chuck, for writing exactly what I wanted to say.
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Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …
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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hey everyone, if you have the spoons/space, I'd really appreciate a signal boost/share of this: www.audible.com/pd/The-First... The First Binding is on a month long 6.99 sale (America/US audible only) right now for all of Feb. And it's my bday this month, so :) <3
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The First Binding
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. “Epic fantasy at its finest—an homage to storytelling and legend, richly told and endlessly engaging.”—Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter Do...
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This was one of the last videos I did for TikTok and it feels right to share it elsewhere now that I’ve left there. #ttrpg #fanfiction #books
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 30/12/2025
This Brazilian woman hates AI
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Frost || 3D Models & Reviews @3dfrost.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Heh.
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"I want," the man said to the art robot, and then described an image in some detail. 
"Certainly, said the art robot. A printout came out of its chest. 
"Thank y- Hey! What's this?" 
"A list of artists who make images of the kind you describe, and who are accepting commissions." 

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This is a horror story to a techbro and a feel-good comedy to anyone with a sense of human decency.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/11/2025
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/11/2025
But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit. And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/11/2025
It's not a magic ability, it's a mindset. You see or hear something that snags your attention, you calculate how you could use that in a book, much as a driver notices a kid with a ball or a dermatologist notices lumps on people's skin. Mindset.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
They've lost the 9yos
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My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner 

Kiddo: that’s AI
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"
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Stina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
every single one of my books are in there, including the newest one published two years ago. am furious. y’all, i know you may be busy or at worldcon but take the time to look up yourself today. the ability to apply for the class action suit ends tonight!
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 09/08/2025
*weak groan* This represents SO MUCH of my experience at the library last year... people coming in all "I WANT TO PUBLISH MY NOVEL!" but who don't read... published... novels...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
But the parents are so lost they don’t even realize that it’s not the classes that changed your kid, it was separation from YOU. No gender studies, sociology, or history class could ever accomplish what three months of not having to live with your bullies will do.
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
if you’re not committed in defense of everyone’s rights to erotic expression, pleasure, and desire, as a part of life and art that’s valuable and vital to thriving for so many (especially queer) people… you’re not my colleague or ally. And you need to catch the fuck up real quick.
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Monday thoughts. #booksky
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