Nina

there is yet another story winning a short story prize (this time harper's bazaar) that is being accused of having been ai written and yes the author is a woman who is not white (she is of south asian descent) and yes people are reacting exactly the way you'd think on twitter and on god i swear we need a better literary culture and readers need to get better at reading and identifying what's good and what isn't instead of just saying mimetic nonsense about souls and humanness and mocking diversity qua diversity

people need to stop advising each other on how to spot AI images/ videos based on increasingly unreliable minuscule details and start advising each other on how to find fucking sources. Not only because 9 times out of 10 your most reliable "tell" that an image or video is AI is finding the source account literally tells you in the bio, but because this is also applicable to spotting when somebody is Lying On The Internet. Something people increasingly seem to forget absolutely can and will happen without the use of AI.

can i be a big hater about something unrelated for a second

you look at josehpjh campbells story circle and you think "theres no way thats a universal structure of stories present in every culture" but you read some stories and Yup that thing is stupid & isnt there

If trench warfare were made-up, it would be the most on-the-nose anti-war satire ever created. Bunch of young men shooting at each other from inside open graves, slowly rotting even as they fight to stay alive. Every so often, they get to move a few hundred metres to dig a new grave for themselves somewhere else and this is called a victory.

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

King Arthur got cucked by a 5’6” gay Frenchmen with anemia and several mental disorders that have yet to be described in medical journals.

WHAT?? THE FUCK?? DID I MISS???

- most oblivious Knight of the Round Table after Morgan ‘reveals’ the Lancelot/Guinevere affair

DO NOT. Take inspiration from my art. Let it linger not in your mind for more than an instant, lest my intellectual property is stolen away by your greedy consciousness and my soon-to-be-successful business enterprise is thus killed in the womb. Let my art pass before your glazed eyes without so much as a stirring of emotion, a moment of reflection. See and feel nothing. Crawl through this world on your belly, sightless and thoughtless like a worm. Reblogs > Likes.

Racism against robots seemed like a goofy sci fi metaphor ten years ago but now seems eminently plausible as a future social problem. I just didn’t expect we’d get there through the mechanism of people defending strong IP law.

it's hard being a polyamorous action hero because whenever i have flashbacks to all my dead wives it takes like 20 minutes to get through all of it

it kind of sounds like youre just feeding local women to the deadwife montage

Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?

re: AI tools it's very frustrating because it's like. you can just say "I don't think it's good at most of the things that people use it for and I'm worried about it reducing job opportunities for human beings." but no everyone has to say some bullshit about The Soul and Mental Degradation but not in a fascist eugenics way they promise

"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach