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Kate Wheeling

@katewheeling.bsky.social

environmental writer for hire. "reasonably articulate," according to my dad. "whimsically eco-militant," according to my ex.

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Kate Wheeling @katewheeling.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Wild to me that the takeaway to learning that people don’t want to buy AI-generated art would be to hide it until people give up on caring about it. Like, ma’am, I will die on this hill. I only want to read books written by people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Quoted text: “If you hide that there’s A.I., it sells just fine,” she said.

Ms. West, who also teaches classes on how to write with A.I., has gotten blowback from opponents of the technology, including occasional death threats on social media. But she believes that in time, A.I. generated fiction will become widespread and popular.

“Eventually” Ms. West said, “readers will not care.”

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Kate Wheeling @katewheeling.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Wild to me that the takeaway to learning that people don’t want to buy AI-generated art would be to hide it until people give up on caring about it. Like, ma’am, I will die on this hill. I only want to read books written by people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

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