Making crop tops for the end of summer that say GATEKEEPER in pink letters
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Minneapolis you're so cute! What if a city was a literal dollhouse?
Okay so who's starting the professional organization that provides attestation that art was made by humans? Because I want to give them my $100/year.
Does anyone else get off the plane, use the restroom in the airport terminal, fail to trigger the motion sensor faucet and soap dispenser, and immediately think 'this is it, this is how I found out the plane crashed and I'm a ghost.'
Another word sometimes used instead of gate keeping is quality control. Has a bit of a different ring to it though.
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 20h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
"This story is about Female Rage, where a woman gets angry over being horribly mistreated and abused, but eventually learns to forgive and move on and be a nurturing kind soul instead of vengeful, which would be masculine and unbecoming---" Shut up. Let women rip out their abuser's spines.
Like I don’t dig a trend toward witch hunts, toward picking out every em dash and “not X but Y”, that shit sucks. But also, people should be ashamed to admit to using this technology in writing. It should be something done in cringing secret, in terror of being found out
Suzan the chalant goth@sillysyntax.bsky.social · 9h agoI am logged on for 2 hours to say I am appalled by what I read in the HWA newsletter. There are AI witch hunts ongoing where writers are being accused of using that garbage tech with no evidence. Telling ppl who use AI proudly to get out is not gatekeeping. Call out the writers and companies.
I swear to God I'm almost done with my opinions about this but is professing a kind of parochial pseudo-humble ignorance about LLMs supposed to give me confidence in the AI writing app you made or????
TC Parker (she/her)@tcparker.bsky.social · 7h agoHi Sephera! I understand how commercialised LLM-based text/image extruders (the "AI" you're talking about) work, and how they're trained I assume that means I'm alright to call you out for this particular bit of bad-faith grifting? P.S. other people also understand them. Might be a you problem
It's fine not to have expertise in something, but that's not the same thing as experts in that thing not existing at all.
Malda Marlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · 7h agoi don't have anything clever to add about the hwa mess but i did peek over at the facebook wasteland where the author posted this, uh, defense. we're all bullies, because it's the wild west, and see we're all proving her point, and who really understands ai, fuckin magnets how do they work amirite?
If you use AI to write your story or your music, you’re a loser. I don’t have time for anything you’ve presented because you didn’t have time to actually work at being creative. If that makes me an asshole, I’ll be that. It’s not the first time I’ve been called an asshole, and it won’t be the last.
@jasonsanford.bsky.social are you going to cover the recent HWA newsletter brouhaha? I know it's not your usual beat but if you have the attention to spare many SFF writers are also in the HWA!
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Like okay look Hypothetically If I was a member of the board of an organization, I would not use that organization's newsletter to share my personal views. I work for a tech company that makes AI tooling. I do not publish my personal views about AI use in art on the company's marketing blog.
Bringing your own cold brew is low key goated when 6am flights are the vibe
Pretending you don't see a difference between AI that counts beans and AI that steals novels is a doltish, peevish stance. Cannot believe @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social ran this apologia for the plagiarism machine.
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 20h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
If that were my op-Ed in the HWA, I would be really, really embarrassed. Any authors who follow me (bc I block the bad ones) —don’t you DARE ever have imposter syndrome again. Ever. Or else I’ll crawl through your window, give you a lil kiss on the noggin, and whisper “stop it” in your ear.
The HWA has an anti-AI policy. So irregardless, they should not be publishing this or promoting the AI writing coach app from the same person.
They point out in each newsletter that the opinions in the op-ed section don't represent the organization or its members ... but how are the op-eds selected? Is there a member raffle? A magic 8-ball? Does Simon say? Why is the org sending out something that's perspective would destroy the org?
Ancestors, looking down: Our exalted daughter sleeps among the clouds! Her palace towers over that of the gods! Me, trying to charge my phone in a 17th floor hotel room: ugh only one of the 6 outlets next to the bed works for my charger ugh fuck ugh FUCK
"You can choose to be a gatekeeper, or you can choose to have some humanity for your fellow human beings who are just trying to figure things out. No one has the answers yet, so why do you think you do?" No but like I do though. AI AIN'T ART. I HAVE LITERALLY MADE STICKERS.
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 20h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
Everybody adding "-eligible" to their bios after "HWA," "SFWA"
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 20h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
Wait really? REALLY? Come on HWA, didn't we just do policy about this? COME ON.
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 20h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
And! Even if you somehow sell every single book you write without having to plan anything in advance, if you ever want to go to a workshop or get an agent or anything like that, you're going to have to learn to write a synopsis! It's hard to do this! It's worth learning how to do it well!
Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · yesterdayI always bring this up when I teach 'How I, A Committed Exploratory Writer, Taught Myself How To Outline' Even if you are the world's pantsiest pantser, if you sell on proposal you WILL have to give people SOMETHING that resembles an outline! I am sorry! They will ask!
penis inspectors are witches. "penis inspector" is an oppressive class, like PMC people or Scandinavian people.
Giving meaningful childhood experiences to the dogs by telling them I'm going out for smokes when I have to run an unplanned errand at 6:00 p.m.