I'm in the generation that was sold so many lies. That Happily Ever After was always generously bestowed upon the worthy by the magnanimous ruling class. We know better. Happily ever after has to be fought for.

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.

This strange volume puts the lie to Ditchfield’s title: tyrants, not books, kill authors.

The magical beasts have been freed and the King is furious. With me. If only he knew.

Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.

“This was written with AI…” we’ve all seen the accusations in articles, posts, videos, and reviews. Accusations are made publicly, and the hint or suggestion that AI was used is enough to cause panic, doubt, and cancellation. Yet is there something to the suspicion? Sometimes, but not always.

Survival mode is not something that someone can persist in in perpetuity. It's going to extract its price from you eventually.

What inspires you? Authors Kat and Katze talk about where they get their inspiration from, the differences between stories that are inspired by, a retelling of, and plain plagiarism. Finally, get insi...

Welcome to Spammers and Scammers, our third edition in this series where we look at different scams targeting our indie author and publisher community so we can stay educated and protected from bad actors and sneaky service providers. This month…

I will never replace those human connections for AI. For all the ethical and moral reasons, but also because the flaws and cracks and idiosyncrasies of human beings are just so much better than the linguistic equivalent to landlord beige.

That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.

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

Kat and Ruby talk you through some of the things you will want to think about as you work toward turning that story into an original story.

In which the apprentice to the ferryman of the Styx effs around and finds out.

New wave of publishing fraud mimics lonely hearts swindles of old – swapping promises of true love for the fantasy of literary acclaim. And the wooing process is now fully automated

Everyone makes mistakes, and leaving people with the message that it's the choices they make each day, rather than the loss of control, is what truly defines them.

ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.

Bona Books share a hard-learned lesson: we accidentally bought AI-generated fiction. This deep dive into our experience with submission fraud covers the "red flags" we missed, the toll it took on our small press, and our call for industry-wide solidarity against AI-written content. Learn h

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness

Studies show that using AI can lead people to “cognitive surrender.” But with the right approach, it can also elevate your thinking.

Many of us now use the word hobo to refer to any homeless individual, but back in the America of the late 19th and early 20th century, to be a hobo meant something more.