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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My status RN: Chronic AFK and anxiety. Why: We are moving out of a red state. Plus, USA spiraling towards fascism. Writing: Yes. It is all that keeps me sane. Reading: Not nearly enough, too busy stimming with phone games and putting out fires.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

#romance #plotidea free to all (might already have been done): MC: Wealth management specialist. LI: #Billionaire who got rich by robbing other billionaires. Plot: "Find out who the billionaires I robbed stole the money from, and help me get it back to them. Anything left over goes to charity."

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Describe your taste in men using 4 fictional characters:

Pounded Lovingly By My Lack Of Motivation After Realizing That Slowing Down Is Actually An Important Part Of Emotional Regulation And It’s Okay To Feel Unmotivated Sometimes

Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides

Pounded By The Realization That Chuck Tingle’s Erotic Works Are A Singular Piece Of Art That Skewers Conservative Fears Of Moral Decay By Repurposing Them As The Promise Of A Sex-Positive Utopia

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

#romance #writers 💖 Weird stuff happening just cuz, and somehow chars just roll with it. AKA #crackfic, cuz laughter is often key. If you can't laugh in love, what's even left? ❌ Rich MCs. I get it, it's fantasy, but it bugs me too much to enjoy. Much rather meet "comfortable" LIs than "rich".

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

To my #aromantic friends: Showers help the hives. All the (platonic) love. ❤️

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

#writers #writesky #skywriters #romance Listening and cackling as wife goes "ARGG FFS" at a book waiting for these two characters to get together... 😂 "That's cute you guys." YUP www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/sa...

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Sarah's Scribbles - Building Tension

This comic is for barely-functioning people, created by a barely-functioning person.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

12 reasons you shouldn’t use AI to write and edit stories write.ellipsus.com/edit/2719fc6...

1. The (Average) Plagiarism Machine

Let’s begin with the source.

AI is trained using copyrighted material—subtitles, fan-fiction, people’s posts. Writing something means it’s yours, copyright you. Posting it on a site almost never removes your copyright to your text. AI was created with massive datasets of copyrighted material, which it then remixes in a mathematical predictive fashion that results in text we think has meaning, which the machine itself does not understand, and which spits out the words that were stolen, frequently verbatim.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Listening to @ckohwrites.bsky.social read aloud tourist posts to r/Malaysia is hilarious. "Is it possible to climb Mt. Kinabalu without a guide?" "Uhhhh..." "I have climbed many mountains in UK and..." "PFFT!!" 🤣🤣🤣

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Snrk. Siiiiigh.😆 My apocalypse skill: Dying. Probably dying. 😀 But if I survived that... um... doing repetitive stuff. Like sharpening knives? That's relaxing!

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Billionaires get rich by stealing from the poor pass it on

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This. This is why I follow several authors who showcase mature relationships and good communication in their books. (@ajsherwood.bsky.social, @jennifercodymm.bsky.social, any other #mmromance #bookreccs?) Also, I love #crackfic because it makes it easier to take it less seriously. Send reccs please!

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

LOL you are not alone... @ckohwrites.bsky.social you have a twin. As the Person in our pair I must remind you both: Resting is work. Thinking is work. Researching is work. Reading is work. They're all work and that means you're working on your #writing! ❤️

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just want to amplify this. Please don't use this word unless it's in a serious discussion about #racism. I know in America it has been romanticized. It ain't romantic, though, and once you know, you know. #writers and #readers, please don't perpetuate it. Thank you @opreroma.bsky.social ❤️ 👇

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

2nd surprise #casualracism in as many days is making me post this: Y'all. The word is Roma or Romani. The other word, the one that starts with G? That's a fucking ethnic slur. If you're throwing it around casually, stop. And if your parents named you that, name changes are a thing. We can do better.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#writers, #skywriters, and #booksky: I see too many of you stuck with Google Docs and Microsoft Word/365 and other solutions that often package generative AI or reserve the right to train AI on your work. There is #Ellipsus. No AI, queer AF, an ethical company, and it has folders. ellipsus.com

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Ellipsus | Collaborative writing software

Write, edit, and collaborate on any device. Ellipsus is a principled alternative to Google Docs—built for writers, by writers. Sign up for free.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I love this so much. Pretty please? ...and special request from my #aromantic peeps (or maybe just from me): if there's ANY romance, tag it. Even if it's not a romance novel. Surprise romantic subplots make me

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a picture of a dinosaur with the words dies from cringe

Alt: a picture of a dinosaur dying with the words DIES FROM CRINGE

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Re: #spsfc: I have been told that I should approach the situation with a bit more gentleness now that they have booted the fascist. After the past year, I don't have a whole lot of gentleness for "fascists?! in MY scifi?!" shocked pikachu face. But, I know what #runbyvolunteers is like. #Tips below.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

THIS is what #spsfc needs to do. It's not hard. 👇

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

#nazisareforpunching not platforming - I'm hearing sad things about #spsfc: they're platforming Devon Eriksen, a guy whose dog whistles are air raid sirens and whose twitter account looks like, well, that one relative at Thanksgiving who makes it misery (CW: fascist rhetoric): x.com/devon_erikse...

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Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) / X

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Also, how the FUCK was I not following @chucktingle.bsky.social on Bsky?! Fixed that RIGHT now, OMG.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Chesterton's Fence: Before you can remove something, you must understand it. Found it at www.science.org/content/blog... and it struck a chord: so often we want to remove that which annoys us without understanding what it's there for. Plus, the writing is damn eloquent.

"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I actually wrote to Payhip to ask their stance on spicy stuff in case the US went full #handmaidstale. Their response is that they're absolutely fine with anything the payment services Paypal and Stripe will allow. Which is honestly better than I thought. They're UK-based.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Imma quote my own post so I can include both in my profile pin: bsky.app/profile/wint...

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Attn #marketers & #editors of #booksky: If you use AI art in your online profile, we're going to think "this person will use AI elsewhere as well" and some of us do not want our works mauled by the Mediocre Plagiarism Machine. Do not be surprised when we do not follow you back. See rant. #deathtoai

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I DO need a #vulture, thank you very much! Vultures clean the ecosystem and are good for the world. Plus, there's nothing like seeing them sitting on street lights during a rainstorm. Big dang #birds.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Pretty sure @ckohwrites.bsky.social's brain did this to her last night 😂

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Part of the reason I love my wife @ckohwrites.bsky.social is because of her ability with language. Just casually tosses out the male equivalent of a bodice ripper in general conversation "Yes but not as much as the pants rippers" 🤣 which paints so many *pictures* in my head 😂👍😍

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is amusing and sweet and as an #aromantic it makes me cackle. I don't have any exes I hate enough to put a name on but hey, feed a #wildcat? Heck yeah. They'd support that.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Suchir Balaji wrote about the #ethics of #ai here: suchir.net/fair_use.html Some of it is applicable to #writers:

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When does generative AI qualify for fair use?

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

#skywriters #booksky #writers Found this while reading the news today: www.usatoday.com/story/entert... - their FAQ says they will sell self-published titles for authors publishing through Draft2Digital or IngramSpark. Exciting times! If they replace KU and my fave authors join I am GONE from 'Zon.

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Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores

Bookshop.org launched a new platform that allows independent bookstores to sell e-books to readers. Here's a look inside.

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Michelle Hauck @michelle4laughs.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I've had several editors lately tell me 120K is the top limit for debut epic fantasy. Everything else should be fewer words.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am drumming at my brain for ideas. I have the most ideas for scifi, but I don't waaaant to do scifi! Adding a gothic twist to a story about chill shouldn't be hard, given the Year Without A Summer was literally the birth of gothic literature, but my brain is not being forthcoming. SPIT IT OUT! AA!

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

LOL, I was about to reply, "You should get the cup I got my wife!" then I saw who posted 😂 www.teepublic.com/mug/7161230-...

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I'm a Writer by molly11

Sometimes you need to do some research and sometimes it can involve weird stuff.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The sad thing about my sanity is, I have to try this. ...but even that caffeine will not be safe if we tariff China, where all the caffeine is made...

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Kinda. I'm reading @aletheafaust.bsky.social's Sex Wizards books because of something they said on here, and frankly I'm enjoying the hell out of it. I learned long ago that authors who I don't share beliefs with are likely to write stuff that upsets me. Social media is a good way to figure that out

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 24/01/2025

if a human did not write it, draw it, photograph it, etc., then the result can only aspire to (and often fail to achieve) idle beauty - not literature or art - and it will never be worthy of sharing space on a shelf or anywhere else except, perhaps, a museum of expensive failures

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@tavialark.bsky.social "Drinking from the Fountain of Youth seemed like a good idea at the time." 😂👍 Glorious.

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Gave it a shot but don't wanna post the results 🫣 but I can say with absolute certainty that I should FINISH MY DAMN STORY BEFORE I START A NEW ONE. Epilogues are so f'n hard. ...If I don't finish, that means the story never ends, see? 😁

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Winter Shaw @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hi @mazmaddox.bsky.social, welcome to bsky! I'm utterly a fan of your ability to string mad elements together over the course of X00+ pages, then bring them all together into a symphony of screaming hilarity/bizarrity that MAKES SENSE and also makes you weep with joy. Kevin is the best. #mmwriters

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