Reposted by LeeHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You 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. 414423
Reposted by Lee"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But 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. 1055976
Reposted by LeePaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026AI is ruining cute animals for me 12012167
Reposted by LeeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026Anyway 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. 114831
Reposted by LeeSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Seriously, 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” 436587
Reposted by Leeshintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 4360283
Reposted by LeeRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just 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. 1343772
Reposted by LeeFoz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The 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. 17429
Reposted by LeeJohn 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...nytimes.comWhat 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. 6436571194
Reposted by LeeGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/08/2026there 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. 215032
Reposted by LeeYaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026AI 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 3924841148
Reposted by Lee🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Gonna 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. 242151733
Reposted by LeeGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/08/2026Let 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. 524965
Reposted by LeeMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I 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 932821016
Reposted by LeeElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As 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. 362114072241
Reposted by LeeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/08/2026In which I discuss plagiarism behaviour, and how very like GenAI behaviour it is. 29127
Reposted by LeeCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/08/2026The 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 121118191
Reposted by LeeCohen 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 8669551771
Reposted by LeeJoseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I genuinely lay the blame for some of this on this pervasive online culture of infantilizing grown-ass adults. 2296
Reposted by LeeJoseph 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. 1152
Reposted by LeeDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026I'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. 10347771572
Reposted by LeeSimon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This 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 6695963544
Reposted by LeeTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/03/2026Nicely 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 643069
Reposted by LeePaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The 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! 6863241085
Reposted by LeeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I 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. 22257721006
Reposted by LeeJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write 14291191809
Reposted by LeeRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Social 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. 372182013442
Reposted by LeeAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Huge 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.terribleminds.comWriters Who Use AI Are Not Real WritersDorothy 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 … 24616
Reposted by LeeR.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Hey 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 :) <3audible.comThe First BindingCheck 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... 23743
Reposted by LeeJoseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026This 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 4628
Reposted by LeeAdolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 30/12/2025This Brazilian woman hates AI 4861392688
Reposted by LeeFrost || 3D Models & Reviews @3dfrost.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I 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 1332443611493
Reposted by LeeRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025one 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. 238228646522
Reposted by LeeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/11/2025the 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. 343170
Reposted by LeeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/11/2025But 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. 443966
Reposted by LeeKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/11/2025It'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. 433318
Reposted by LeeCasey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Why 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. 84106164137
Reposted by LeeJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel. 161136154
Reposted by LeeSusan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025They've lost the 9yos 104108912908
Reposted by LeeCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim! 83101986747
Reposted by LeeArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.arstechnica.comAuthors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class actionAdvocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry. 98162952335
Reposted by LeeStina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 14/08/2025every 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! 03828
Reposted by LeePremee 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... 2755870
Reposted by LeeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/08/2025AI 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. 579147952418
Reposted by LeeAshley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025But 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. 291711296
Reposted by LeeLee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025if 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. 018353