🥳🥳🥳 meet THE BRIDGE: an ambitious & exciting project from Look2Justice, which supports incarcerated writers & is led by currently & formerly incarcerated people. i'll be directing their book fellowship, supporting three accomplished authors! www.look2justice.org/the-bridge
Who are the literary agents with insight into all those new Christian-oriented imprints and presses that are cropping up?
Ok I fell behind on the AI slop discourse but this one is really clear-eyed and good
I think it could be even more insidious still than deleted material. Here’s what happened when I wrote critically about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and asked OpenAI product ChatGPT to suggest edits. (The full transcript is in SEARCHES & gets even more dystopian.)
I’m sorry what??? Great reporting from @knibbs.bsky.social on the author who used AI to write his book about AI and the future of truth. 🤯 www.wired.com/story/future...
Come for @bcmerchant.bsky.social's take on how Anthropic infiltrated the Vatican (and subscribe to his Substack to read about it, while you're at it), and stay to hear me talk about AI turning up in books and magazines!
I thought I was writing an essay explaining a decision to stop using the em dash — or least use it way less — because of how AI chatbots have appropriated it. Instead, I found myself arguing passionately in favor of it. 😑
Had a great time speaking with @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @vauhinivara.bsky.social about the current state of AI –– how Anthropic convinced the media that it's the industry's "ethical" leader, and how AI writing is creeping into journalism and literature: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
“Some people have interpreted the pontiff's letter as grounds for religious objections to using AI in the workplace.”
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Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us.
We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
Vauhini Vara
This week, Anthropic filed for an IPO following a valuation of nearly $1 trillion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in history. On this week’s On the Media, the company’s m...
Gift link to my story today on how the rise of AI-assisted writing is blurring the lines between human authorship and slop — and leading some writers to feel pressure to overrely on tools that still have serious, albeit increasingly subtle, flaws. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Micah Loewinger
What counts as an acceptable use of AI has never been fuzzier.
