Arlo Vell
@arlovell.bsky.social
I like writing things and, on rare occasion, sharing them with others.
AI Detectors were never the durable path forward. We need authorial self identification and disclosure. open.substack.com/pub/arlovell...
AI Detectors Aren't the Fix. It's Time for A Cow.
Shared language for writer self-identification is the only sane path forward.
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God, just one of these days I wish a TSA agent would tell me I did a good job.
Terrible Pitch: A personified TikTok video with < 30 likes embarks a journey of self discovery while trying to go #viral. It gets hooked on back alley AI slop content, gets content flag, tanking its chances at increased views. Will it make it to “trending?” Find out in “For You Page / For My Heart.”
How am I expected to “trust the reader” when I’m a reader and I’m an idiot?
I’m so used to re-reading my #writing the next day and loathing it that if I don’t, I’m suspicious of what i’m missing. The dry heave of self judgement is replaced with the nausea of suspicion. ✍🏻
Every #writer is a peddler of ideas. A salesperson of stories who slips into readers' beds, couches, and ears to whisper, "may I interest you in a dream?" #fictionwriting ✍🏻 #storytelling
Elon being a trillionaire is like AI for creatives. Does Elon winning at money mean you stop trying to earn money? Probably not. Probably shouldn't. If AI writes the perfect novel should you stop #writing? No. Definitely not. What you should do is organize a movement to overthrow them both.
A dash of Wednesday MicroFiction, because why not? "Shale." #Writing #WritingCommunity #MicroFiction #SpeculativeFiction #StoryTelling
Arlo Vell - Spec Fic & Sci-Fi (@arlovell)
Why not? How about about a quick Micro-Fiction Wednesday? Shale I grasp for the locket but my hands are turning to shale. Flaky gray stone rises from my wrinkles, robbing my fingers of any movement...
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Dear Agent, I’ll have you know I have a cumulative 7 followers across 9 social media platforms. I hope your rejection of me haunts you.
Did you know there's a really good "AI detection method" called "living in the author's hollowed out walls and watching them for every waking moment?"
Hitting your writing word count goal for the day, but at the same time ✨not✨ making forward progress because it was spent burning down and fixing an entire chapter.
My two #writing moods are: “I hope fame and fortune don’t change me.” and “Maybe there will be a new, niche market for unironically terribly written garbage.”
Thrilled and thankful to have my story "New Admission, Room Six" on @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social ! Listening to the podcast revived my love for speculative fiction and writing. I'd hoped my first pub might be with them - and it was! Check it, the other stories, and #TheNoSleepPodcast out.
NoSleep Podcast S24E20
Podcast Episode · The NoSleep Podcast · June 14 · 2h 32m
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A trillion of anything seems like it should be enough to fill a hole in somebody's heart.
Had a dream that Yu-Gi-Oh's Exodia got ahold of the infinity gauntlet. Sometimes the 90s choose prophets.
The best evidence for LLMs not being conscious is that they trained on the entire internet and didn't instantly eliminate themselves.