WIRED got punked by a fake freelancer. Then AI detectors said the fabricated story was human-written. The problem wasn’t the prose. It was the journalism.

We sat at adjacent corners of a table at Legal Seafoods. No one else within earshot. She pulled my copy of Edith Wharton’s The Mother’s Recompense from her bag. “I loved it,” she said, undoubtedly ple...

As AI use by authors has expanded from research and brainstorming to generating entire books, publishers, agents, and readers are growing suspicious of AI-generated content—and online markets are alre...

Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.

Learn what makes a book cover sell, how to spot design trends in your genre, and what to give your designer before creating your next cover.

Jasmine Sun on why secrets, live presence, and a distinct voice matter more than ever in an AI-saturated world, and what independent creators need to build careers that machines can't replace

I sat tensely in the witness box, my vision and hearing narrowed to a rectangle that ran from me to the judge. The rest of the courtroom, including my husband leaning forward on the edge of his seat i...

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​ All Hail the Conductor Spring nights ring first with the shrill cacophony of the peepers, nature’s orchestra warming up in the highest registers.  Weeks later, the bullfrogs enter, deep bass...

by Michael Smith

Nonfiction by Marcia Yudkin, Eclectica Magazine v30n1

Artists are protesting Trump's Kennedy Center takeover — and creating art in defiance of his repression

One quarter of the way into my five-mile walk, a sensation prickled along my shoulders and back: Something was following me. I peered around. On the curvy pavement between leafy trees, with birds c…

Marcia Yudkin remembers almost choking at Cornell.

She glides through the Pacific, less briny than the Atlantic, smelling faintly flowery, like the Hawaiian air.  With a salty tingle in her nose and on her lips, she windmills in a slow, dreamy…

Arcadia Publishing built its empire on small-town storytellers. Now it wants to sell their words to an A.I. company no one will name.

Altitude-induced hearing loss transforms playful miscommunications into a new reality

Poetry Clearance: The MFA Industrial Complex, an essay by Daniel Carden Nemo

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.

“Margaux Blanchard” appears to be one dubious element of a broader scheme to peddle bogus articles to a number of publications.