Okay this was fun, mostly because it reminded me of how much fun computer games used to be.
Drew Broussard
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![[HIGHLIGHTED] Now, despite carrying this attitude into my reading experiences, while reading I have had the question - I wonder if this is AI? - creep into my consciousness. When this happens I keep reading, if it persists and is interfering with the more meaningful pleasures, I stop reading and move on.
I don’t take the text to Pangram to check if my suspicions are correct. I stop. Whatever that text is giving me is not what I’m looking for. [END HIGHLIGHTED TEXT] There’s more than enough stuff to read in the world, so why spend my time on something that does not feel sufficiently human no matter its provenance?
For sure, I am likely triggering some internal false positives and what I’m reading is not AI prose, but lackluster or unengaging human writing, but so be it. Time to move on either way. It’s not that I’m eager to trust others, so much as I trust myself to know what is and isn’t worth my time.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qwscvjsncjpibfnzmkoqvif/bafkreie5zg5arxlrzhjncttgdsaobvn343qu2usddqzt2dxihb4m6b2owy)
![Trump then claims that the US has got “nothing out of Nato”, apart from protecting Europe from Russia.
[This is, frankly, offensive. Nato’s collective defence pledge, Article 5, has only been activated once, after 9/11].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qwscvjsncjpibfnzmkoqvif/bafkreifv2hcsdqkunjquvhl7z72wfi2nqqj3xgi4dey4hrzl5kovhh67yy)
![In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Big Boss Interview podcast, Daunt said while Waterstones uses AI for logistics they currently try to keep AI-generated content out of the shops.
"As a bookseller, we sell what publishers publish, but I can say that instinctively that is something that we would recoil [from]," he said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qwscvjsncjpibfnzmkoqvif/bafkreigv4omffrbt4naeql73qensh4avdrs6qm3ctmyu34xwx3ujduozje)
![You need to stop putting your work into these platforms, immediately.
[HIGHLIGHTED]I could get up on a high horse and give you a million reasons why you should not ever, under any circumstances be doing this when it comes to the greater collective (theft of others work and effort and time, the fact that it depletes our natural resources). But I only need tell you that you are ruining your chance at creative happiness. It’s ruining your brain. I know this because it’s making you bleed joy.[END HIGHLIGHTING]
Your letter troubled me, friend. I worry that you have decided to just let go of all thought and let a computer think for you. That’s not what writing and passion and creativity is about. It’s not art. You do not need generative AI to give you story ideas. You do not need a robot to tell you whether your work is good. Only you can do that. Stop roadblocking your own writing life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qwscvjsncjpibfnzmkoqvif/bafkreihwvqoxydedzbg3uvf5dz6a5hsaquykpyxt5huhkineb2wzu5zt7e)
