Couldn't have said it any better ourselves!

Rose-tinted glasses on Jaded Eyes 💠🐦‍⬛@quoththedesk.bsky.social · 19h ago

The goal of having so much AI content isn't necessarily to pass itself off as genuine, human work. It's to obfuscate and deflate the veracity of all writing, which benefits maxxers and supplants legitimate writers. Creating doubt and paranoia is also a goal, one verifiers greatly benefit from.

AI verifiers are no friends to writers. They were built from the same stolen work as every other generative AI model out there… and the damage to authors is REAL. A beefy 🧵👇

You see, she writes very little. And when she does write, she does so abusing commas, em dashing under the sun, with a sprinkle of oxymoron.

Ellipsus@ellipsus.com · 7d ago

Style is what makes your voice unique, original, and all your own (read: AI could never)! Share your quirks loud and proud. This is #howIwriteWednesday. Who else loves mega-long sentences? (Clock the triple digit text complexity, go off James 💁‍♀️) What are your funny, unusual, or revealing patters?

We all have one... or do we? Let us know!👇 (Art by Guillermo Martí Ceballos)

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psi φ@dpsisquared.bsky.social · 7d ago

She wrote predictably, abusing participial phrases to vary her sentence structure.

Ellipsus Plus users, we got a snazzy update for you… 🥁 *drumroll* 🥁 Introducing: Typewriter scrolling! 📜📜

Today we’re shipping a HEAVILY requested feature— Comments. On. Main. Say goodbye to the days of draft-only comments. Now you and your collaborators can leave comments right smack in the main doc. 🥵

Style is what makes your voice unique, original, and all your own (read: AI could never)! Share your quirks loud and proud. This is #howIwriteWednesday. Who else loves mega-long sentences? (Clock the triple digit text complexity, go off James 💁‍♀️) What are your funny, unusual, or revealing patters?

AI companies destroying rare and out-of-print books to train LLM models… this some cartoon-style villainy. "Responsible physical sourcing is not book burning [...] It is the completion of a book’s lifecycle: from tree to knowledge to tree again." The cynicism is breathtaking. shorturl.at/os0vc

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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In our latest blog post, Jonah (aka 'Roughest Drafts' on Youtube) discusses poetry, drafting, and the regrettable surge of AI-verifiers onto the publishing scene—from Substack, to literary awards:

We're back with a stellar writing prompt to kick off the week ✍️ (Artist: Helin Ozdemir)

I'm about 10% done with the first draft of my sci-fi western novel. #writesky #writers #writing #scifi #western @ellipsus.com

Are you an Ellipsus mobile user? Here's everything you need to know about the Ellipsus PWA for mobile and desktop. All tutorial videos are available (with captions) on our Youtube: www.youtube.com/@ellipsus_/p... youtu.be/EPhORMolr6k

Ellipsus Mobile Web App tutorial -- installing and troubleshooting the PWA

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In case you haven’t heard, Substack, the online publishing giant, have partnered with the AI-verifier tool Pangram. All text posts over 100 words will be subject to an AI verification test with the click of a button. This is damaging for writers of all stripes. Here’s why 🧵 shorturl.at/6lyl2

Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack is combatting “Claudefishing.”

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Style is what makes your voice unique, original, and all your own (read: AI could never)! Every week, we’ll share some Writing Insights from the canon’s finest. This is #howIwriteWednesday. Every writer has their own quirks, flourishes, and... fixations. ahem D.H Lawrence 👀 (mommy issues much?)

Have you written much lately? Why or why not? ✍️

A shiny new support center is materializing! 🛠️ With more than 600k writers now using Ellipsus (🙀), we’re streamlining support so it’s easier to find answers, report problems, and get urgent issues to us a lot faster. 🧵 help.ellipsus.com/support/home

Grifters generating metric f*cktons of slop and bogus biographies about people without consent is absurd, wrong, and, unfortunately, predictable. (See our article all the way back from 2024! ellipsus.com/blog/the-dis...) 🧵👇 (🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...)

Reply with your thoughts 🤔 (Artwork by Liza Sivakova)

Custom Themes take personalization to the next level 😍 Themes carry over to the Reader, so you can create the perfect ambience for your audience. You can even use them as backgrounds for your snippets! Try Ellipsus Plus free for one week (no payment info required) ➡️ ellipsus.com/pricing

On Mondays we write... ✍️

Aaaand we're back—with more tutorials to help you get the most out of Ellipsus. Looking to share your work on Ao3? Ready to move your over from GDocs(👿)?? Check out our tutorial on Import and Export best practices to see how the pros do it. youtu.be/aUjyBdn4Hak

Import and Export best practices -- share and import your docs on Ellipsus! (Ao3, Markdown, .docx)

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A new option for anyone with a veeeeery long doc or complicated outline - Collapsible headers! 🎉🎉

A prompt to kick off the week ✍️

“[R]ather than surrender our judgment to AI-detection software, we asked our winners to show their working drafts, outlines, the evidence of an artistic journey.” (shorturl.at/LUAbJ) 🧵 This is what we mean by defending human work. Verifiers and “tells” are untrustworthy... (1/2)

Short story accused of being AI-written wins overall Commonwealth prize

Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original, poetic and deeply moving’ by the judging chair

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This June, we debuted Ellipsus Plus as a colorful, creative, and (of course!) human way to help keep Ellipsus independent—while supporting the free plan for everyone. If it’s your first time hearing about our new features, here’s what they’re all about: youtu.be/RPEnL1D1TLg

Ellipsus Plus: Feature Tour! -- Custom Themes, Writing Insights, Emboss, Snippets.

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More gorgeous prompts to round out Pride 🌈 (We hope you've been writing...or whatever else makes you happy during this special month.) Full list of prompts on the blog: ellipsus.com/blog/writing...

Whew, we’ve been busy! Hot on the heels of list view for everyone, we’ve added four new Writing Insights for Ellipsus Plus! Take a closer look at your docs with...👇

Ahhhh, a long-awaited improvement (especially for those of us with a thousand WIPs on the dash... you know who you are...) Get on top of your docs with LIST VIEW!