Tade Thompson

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

The machine knows what you want better than you do, dammit!

I missed this by seconds!

"I use AI for researching my historical novels, but I'm pro human writing because look at the nifty Human Authored label I'm promoting" is the "some of my best friends are Black" of AI activism.

YUP.

I will never give SoA donations again.

The thing is some of them at least partially use AI to write, so they can't take a proper hard line.

They can't do this dance.

They do think like hypocrites though.

That's what I said.

Home - Human Authored In a world of generative AI, recognising human creativity is vital This is why we’re developing a Human Authored mark to enable all types of writers and literary translators to label their work as Hum...

I will not be using the Human Authored mark on any of my books.

Mainly because these people who are so-called champions of human art are using AI.

Jesus, shield me against hypocrisy.

They clearly use AI. They said it on the radio this morning. I tweeted about it today.

Seen on a manuscript review: "Elegant Oxford comma placement."

Ooh, talk dirty to me, why don't you...

Grrrrrrr.

And we need to remind them that we pay subscription fees for Word, which most of us use to write, and we rent other software.

Will they comp us all the software?

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Person talking about using 'human author logo' labels on books undercuts her own argument by admitting to regularly using AI for research in her historical fiction.

Brought to you by Society of Authors and Tracy Chevalier.

Again and again.

Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? (Official Audio) YouTube video by BillWithersVEVO

"A man we passed just tried to stare me down,
And when I looked at you you looked at the ground.
I don't know who he is, but I think that you do.
Dad-gum-it! Who is he, and what is he to you?"

I swear, reading the early stories with Jackdaw opened up my creative mind. Not that compared to his other work it's particularly deep but it changed my needs from big muscled guys hitting each other to more complicated things. It was like growing up a little.

"How do we know something is shit? We watch the way the deep, honest part of our mind reacts to it. And that part of the mind is the one that reading and writing refine into sharpness."

George Saunders / A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

The Alan Moore years?

The Romita one was used for a Marvel Colouring book in 1981.

Ask me how I know 😁

Wow.

That's a steal.

A man vomits up some ectoplasmic shit

Junji Ito.

My technique is simple: the basics and the edge.

Get the basics from a good standard text.

Get the cutting edge from the latest research findings.

Hasn't failed me yet.

Me, in one hour.

Also, Google's fuck ups are making me look like a genius, whereas I'm just a mediocre guy who still believes in and reads textbooks.

I had to school a student on how bad google is on medical matters today.

Them: [Thing] doesn't exist.

Me: *produces direct citation*

Me: Yeah, it does.

Them: Ooohh...it didn't show up on my google search.

Me: There's your problem right there.

(Thing=fairly common diagnosis.)

He's got the Bird Man helmet and the Space Ghost bracelet (sort of).

They had to.