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Update: they're taking it seriously.

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Y'all there's a piece in their second-to-last issue from a writer who... it's just unbelievable. She has a clear longer history of poetry and essays of her own pre-AI, but is just transparently publishing slop stories in various mags over the last year.

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From one: "His chest lifted and fell with the kind of rhythm that didn’t ask to be witnessed."

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From that same story: "The porch light swung like it had something to say." "Not a question. Not a call. Simply sound." "No echo came. Only the air, holding nothing."

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I've encountered another respected literary journal (flash fiction) that appears to be mass-publishing blatant AI slop. Like, one in three pieces in their most recent issue. I've contact them privately about it, but depending on response I'm just kind of tired of holding back on this shit.

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Writers deserve to know they will not be published alongside theft slop, full stop.

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Yes, Pangram backs the results. No, Pangram is not necessary in order to flag them pretty immediately by eye.

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In terms of the important dialogues around racism factoring into suspicions/accusations of AI—most of the stories I'm flagging here are by white dudes, and so I do have to wonder if that plays in at all.

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Anyone have experience or advice on filing FOIL requests with New York? With the ongoing bombardment of undisclosed AI slop ads, especially online, I'm looking to find out if the AG's office has actually fined ANY company yet under S8420A, requiring disclosure of "synthetic performers"

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Under the law some companies should be facing hundreds of thousands in fines already, and I've heard zero news, so I expect that hasn't happened.

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From Alicia Ostriker's book, The Holy & Broken Bliss: bookshop.org/a/862/9781949944679 #poem #booksky #writing

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From Alicia Ostriker's book, The Holy & Broken Bliss: bookshop.org/a/862/9781949944679 #poem #booksky #writing

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From Linda Pastan's book, Queen of a Rainy Country: bit.ly/lindaqueenLB #poem #booksky #writing

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From Linda Pastan's book, Queen of a Rainy Country: bit.ly/lindaqueenLB #poem #booksky #writing

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From @emilycorwinwrites.bsky.social's book, Sensorium. #poem #booksky #writing

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From @emilycorwinwrites.bsky.social's book, Sensorium. #poem #booksky #writing

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a poem. From Tarfia Faizullah's book, Registers of Illuminated Villages. #poem #booksky #writing

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What a poem. From Tarfia Faizullah's book, Registers of Illuminated Villages. #poem #booksky #writing

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From Toi Derricotte's book, Captivity: bookshop.org/a/862/9780822954224 #poem #booksky #writing

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From Toi Derricotte's book, Captivity: bookshop.org/a/862/9780822954224 #poem #booksky #writing

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From Safia Elhillo's book, Home Is Not a Country: bookshop.org/a/862/9780593177082 #poem #booksky #writing

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