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Opposition to generative AI is *everywhere*, but AI propaganda doesn’t want you to know that. The vast majority of people want human art, not AI counterfeits.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 29/09/2026

Who's ready for cozy writing weather? ☺️🍂

Characters:

Your character has a favorite place—where/what is it? How does it make them feel?

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Kastor @kastor.sh · 28/09/2026

As I have reiterated many times before, as someone who actually understands and has worked extensively with language models... it is fundamentally *not possible* to programmatically detect if a work of text is written by AI.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 28/09/2026

Ellipsus stands against the normalization of generative AI in creative spaces. We are building our tool for the millions of you who share this belief. Real art is always and forever human.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 28/09/2026

Pangram once again being weaponized to damage careers without checks or balances 🤦 This is a very harmful trend for writers. AI verifiers should *not* be allowed to decide questions of human authorship (especially when their errors and biases are so well documented!) shorturl.at/lLBiy

An anonymous account called Balance ton Claude – a reference to Anthropic’s AI agent – said it had fed the novel into the AI detection software Pangram and found it to be “almost entirely” written by artificial intelligence.

Questions have been raised over Pangram’s accuracy, and French media outlets have found other AI detection programmes that identified It Was That or Die as very probably written by a human.

Orélien, 38, has denied the allegation, saying it was racially motivated. “I’ve always loved creating and writing,” he said. “I don’t see why I would use a machine.”

He told the newspaper Libération that he used traditional language and rhythms that were Haitian and Caribbean. “The imagery, repetition and rhythm are a living language, they are mine.”

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T_W_Jun @thousandwordjun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OK. @ellipsus.com is cool. Importing all those google docs won't be much fun. Or at least, it'll be a bit slow going. But likely worth it in the end. It's a commitment, a bet, an investment of sorts into this hobby. For a lifelong writer, it's about time.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 24/09/2026

The feeling when a verifier erroneously flags your writing as AI… Infuriating? Absurd? All of the above? This article perfectly captures *that* feeling. sohbae.substack.com/p/i-ran-some...

Who am I to point fingers simply because a wonky AI detector says some of my favorite reads were AI-generated? As you already know , curiosity killed the cat (me), so I ran my very own article through ZeroGPT, maybe to prove a point. A part of me already concluded that my results would be different because maybe these writers used AI to write; I could not be too sure. Guess what the results said? Drum roll please...68.3% human-written and 31.7 AI-written. I stared at those results, wondering where I had gone wrong in life.

AI written????

AI written????

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 24/09/2026

“The future is AI.” No. The future is human communities organised around equality and creative freedom. Human creativity is the future.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 23/09/2026

The future for AI verifiers not looking too bright 😬 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Pangram can be easily fooled by “humanizer” tools that introduce grammatical and stylistic quirks to evade detection. (Yes, this is dizzying: AI that makes your AI writing seem less AI, to escape other AI.) A non-native English speaker who writes their own essay but then runs it through Grammarly, the writing software with AI-powered editing features, might be more likely to get in trouble than a student who let ChatGPT do all the work and then ran the essay through a humanizer.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 23/09/2026

It’s the week that keeps on givinggg 💅 GIFs now work in the editor AND the Reader! Upload as you would any other image (5mb for Plus users; 512kb on the free plan) to give your fic a dose of the cinematique.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 22/09/2026

Two new releases in Ellipsus today 👀 🔒 Spoiler text (free for all!). Hide text behind a click! Use spoilers in your docs and drafts, in comments, or in the Reader for your audience. Select any text → hit the Spoiler button (closed eye icon) on the bottom bar or under Styling in the Format panel.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 21/09/2026

AI hypers: “INCREDIBLE. I WROTE A NOVEL IN 5 MINUTES. i am AN aRTIST!!!” The novel:

They United States Constitution by We The People

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 21/09/2026

Prompt incoming!! (artwork by Edvard Munch)

Characters:

Think about 3 people your characters only met in passing. How do they influence the story?

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 21/09/2026

When writers face dark times, we stand together. Our demands: - No genAI in writing tools and publishing. - No scraping or feeding work to LLMs. - Protections for human authorship. Emboss is one among a suite of tools we’re designing at Ellipsus to support, advance, and defend human creativity.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 18/09/2026

Cory Doctorow with the perfect summary of why AI generated content can never be art: Zero imagination. Zero creative novelty. (Extract from his newsletter “Textured”)

With LLMs, we have invented a machine that uncovers the statistical regularities in our seemingly irregular world, and we have learned that the roughness is rarer than our intuition led us to believe. This machine will also produce statistically regular, smooth output that has the seeming of understanding and consciousness. But - by definition - it can't contain any of our future surprises, because it's just trained on the things we already know, and if we knew about something, it wouldn't be a surprise anymore.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 18/09/2026

"The largest theft of labor in human history." We done knew it. (www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...)

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 17/09/2026

Here in Berlin, we can’t wait for our favorite season to arrive. Already we’re readying our sweaters, and gorging on all things pumpkin spice… and we wanna share the love! This is #ThemeThursday. Download and browse custom themes for free! All you need is a Plus subscription to join in the fun.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 17/09/2026

Thanks for the love, Adam!

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 17/09/2026

Let’s face it, being a writer these days can feel a little scary. AI slopification, ominous algos… In this uncanny valley, how can human writers show that their work is their own? This spooky season, one writer stumbles upon a source of hope… Introducing Ellipsus Emboss, a short film.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 16/09/2026

AI companies are exploiting the anxiety engendered by the technology to force AI into human creative spaces. We’re not having it. We’ve made the Writing Journey free to share for all Ellipsus users, because everyone deserves the right to share the humanity behind their work.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 15/09/2026

Four reasons why AI verifiers are harmful for writers: a) they’re built from many of the same resources as LLMs (including plagiarized work). AI verifiers *are* AI. ⬇️⬇️

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 11/09/2026

This article about AI verifiers and the issues writers are having with AI in general reflects so many conversations I've had in creative communities. Sometimes the whole thing can get so overwhelming, but I still feel hopeful for the future of human creativity. 🏷️ #WriteSky #AntiAI

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Doctor Emmit Brown @docebrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Okay @ellipsus.com this is really cool. Here's how long it took me to write my last fic: ellipsus.com/writing-jour...

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1. Obligation — Writing journey

How doctoremmitbrown wrote 1. Obligation, from the first word to the last.

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Jack Lhasa 👊 @jacklhasa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I love this app.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 14/09/2026

Find yourself railing against AI verifiers over dinner? Us too (🙈) Our latest blog post lays out the the conceits and pitfalls of AI verifiers in exhaustive detail, so you can complain with confidence 💁‍♀️ Full post: ellipsus.com/blog/the-pro...

“The culture emerging in many writing spaces today is a culture of suspicion. We’ve all heard these stories, and it goes without saying that having one's work flagged as AI carries major consequences. There’s a sense of dread from many writers worrying about posting work online at all, in the assumption that someone, somewhere, will get suspicious of an em dash or well-placed adverb. And many are changing their styles, honed over many years and deeply entwined with their voice and their personhood, the closest thing a writer has to a fingerprint—to fit within the confines of a verifier’s assumption.”

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 11/09/2026

Kind of obsessed with our fresh #ThemeThursday custom themes this week - MonoSus, an homage to dark mode coding - make like our illustrious Ellipsus engineers and mutter "works on my machine" at your plot holes...

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 10/09/2026

We think all writers should be able to stand behind their work, and now… every writer can. That’s why we've made the Emboss writing journey free for everyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EclI...

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Emboss by Ellipsus

YouTube video by Ellipsus

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 03/09/2026

It's #ThemeThursday y’all: this week's we’re nostalgic for some back to school energy. Check out Lecture Hall for a dark mode theme where your editor is a chalkboard!

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 30/08/2026

... Not to be all uhhh “promoting our Google Docs alternative writing tool” on main, but... Google has (again) decided that Trump’s geography fanfic is canon. blog.google/products-and... If it must be said: Ellipsus Would Not Do This. 💀

"A screenshot of Google Maps labeling Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States." - source: NYTimes

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 27/08/2026

This week on #ThemeThursday - the Ellipsus team's collective hyperfixation on the old internet (we’ve brought back souvenirs!).

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 20/08/2026

High time we shared some custom theme magic 🪄🪄 We’re launching the Ellipsus theme gallery so you can browse and download homemade themes that we’re writing on, (no, really!) themes.ellipsus.com?v=3bbc9fabd5...

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Ellipsus Custom Themes | Notion

Blablablasomething

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 17/08/2026

It's time for your weekly writing prompt 🤡🤡 (artwork by Kazuo Kasai)

Characters:

If your characters were given the task to prank someone, who would it be, what would they do, and would the prank work?

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 14/08/2026

In our latest blog post, writer and poet Jonah Wardell (better known by his Youtube handle, Roughestdrafts) gives us a peek into his writing process on Ellipsus. Curious about writing insights? Fancy seeing Emboss in action? This is the article for you! ellipsus.com/blog/inside-...

Turns out, when it comes to human authorship, the drafts, outlines, and evidence—the writing journey that Emboss catalogues on your behalf—have the final say.

Humans: 1, AI: 0

- Jonah Wardell

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 12/08/2026

WIPs… we love seeing them on the feed. There’s so much talent out there to celebrate. It’s time to bring back #WIPWednesdays. What are you working on? Share a snippet below! 👇

But success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obiedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 12/08/2026

A gentle reminder that Ellipsus will NEVER feed your writing to an LLM. We do not surveil your work and we will never introduce gen-AI into the tool. AI has no place in human writing.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 11/08/2026

“The dev [...] told Polygon that the character's name was only in a singular Google Doc file. ‘I'd like to clarify that the specific character name is not in the [game] files [...] and I have certainly never mentioned it to an AI before.’” Google acting hella shady… what's new? shorturl.at/Rgy8s

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Steam Developer Alleges Google Leaked Confidential Game Content via AI Search

Gemini is always watching, listening, and apparently reading

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 10/08/2026

Voila, our Monday writing prompt. (Love this one!)

Two characters both have something the other wants. They aren’t allowed to communicate this to each other, but they both know that the other has this thing. How does this show up throughout a conversation? How does the subtext show this occuring?

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 06/08/2026

Between data scraping and invasive AI, Google is not a safe place to host anything, especially your writing. “Opt-out” measures increasingly function like lip service rather than real protections for users. For a deep dive into Google recent misadventures, check out: www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

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From the IndieDev community on Reddit: A player found out the ACTUAL name of my game's upcoming character from the Google Search AI - I had never told the name to anyone.

Explore this post and more from the IndieDev community

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 05/08/2026

Adverbs are a real vibe-maker don’t you think? They have a way of revealing the true… essence of a story. (Heavenly, Manly… Deadly? Anything you wanna talk about Homer? 🤭) What are some of your commonly used/favorite adverbs? Let us know beloowww 👇 #howIwriteWednesday

A screenshot of The Illiad in Ellipsus. The top three adverbs are "Heavenly", "manly", and "deadly."

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 05/08/2026

Couldn't have said it any better ourselves!

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 04/08/2026

AI verifiers are no friends to writers. They were built from the same stolen work as every other generative AI model out there… and the damage to authors is REAL. A beefy 🧵👇

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ria @botfly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You see, she writes very little. And when she does write, she does so abusing commas, em dashing under the sun, with a sprinkle of oxymoron.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 03/08/2026

We all have one... or do we? Let us know!👇 (Art by Guillermo Martí Ceballos)

Reflection

What is your favorite work that you have ever written, and why?

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 30/07/2026

Ellipsus Plus users, we got a snazzy update for you… 🥁 *drumroll* 🥁 Introducing: Typewriter scrolling! 📜📜

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 30/07/2026

Today we’re shipping a HEAVILY requested feature— Comments. On. Main. Say goodbye to the days of draft-only comments. Now you and your collaborators can leave comments right smack in the main doc. 🥵

An Ellipsus document populated with comments.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 29/07/2026

Style is what makes your voice unique, original, and all your own (read: AI could never)! Share your quirks loud and proud. This is #howIwriteWednesday. Who else loves mega-long sentences? (Clock the triple digit text complexity, go off James 💁‍♀️) What are your funny, unusual, or revealing patters?

A screenshot of Joyce's Ulysses in Ellipsus, with a text complexity score of 856.9

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 29/07/2026

AI companies destroying rare and out-of-print books to train LLM models… this some cartoon-style villainy. "Responsible physical sourcing is not book burning [...] It is the completion of a book’s lifecycle: from tree to knowledge to tree again." The cynicism is breathtaking. shorturl.at/os0vc

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 28/07/2026

In our latest blog post, Jonah (aka 'Roughest Drafts' on Youtube) discusses poetry, drafting, and the regrettable surge of AI-verifiers onto the publishing scene—from Substack, to literary awards:

“While AI accusations are unfortunately impossible to avoid at this point, AI-verifiers are not the solution that tech companies would have you think they are. Even if AI-detectors were 100% accurate, they would still require feeding original work into AI, which is exactly what we're trying to avoid! When LLMs are trained on swaths of stolen content already, why would we willingly give up anything more to them? At the end of the day, Substack’s Pangram partnership is another step in the wrong direction.”

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 27/07/2026

We're back with a stellar writing prompt to kick off the week ✍️ (Artist: Helin Ozdemir)

Scenario: Three characters are being interviewed separately, none of them could compare their stories beforehand. What contradictions exist? What do they agree on?

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