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Lena Luthor = useless lesbian.

"It's almost like a sibling thing with Santos. It's been really fascinating to watch people's reactions to Santos, and she can rub a lot of people up the wrong way. But I think with Whitaker, I think he almost sees through her quite a lot. He grew up with five brothers, he's a sibling, so I think he really just sees someone who is coping in their own way by deflecting with jokes and jabs. So I don't think it actually bothers him that much, and I think Santos sort of knows that as well. I'm an easy target, but she knows she's not really gonna affect me." — Gerran Howell (x)

"I use genAI to research history, science etc"

JSTOR had in past year instituted a policy to allow anyone with email id to access 100 free articles PER MONTH.

Lot of academics have free pdfs on their personal websites and will share if you email them. Find a name that wrote a lot about it and go search for their website and lo behold.

internet archive has a bunch of scanned books and recordings

"But that is too dense academia..."

Go to subreddits. Where do you think genAI gets it from? Askhistorians for eg.

Go youtube channels where academics disperse this knowledge in palatable ways. There are lot of good, level headed acads out there (NOT influencers and pop science, go with subject matter experts)

"Ok but for a quick search.."

First turn off the AI search (no thank you duckduck you can go). You can use different search engines to go get indexed blogs that are no longer shown on ad--driven seo. Have you tried marginalia search for eg?

"But what you creative prompts....it helps organise"

Ok that is little harder and you have to do this work of forming bonds with strangers for this but it is easy. Fandom usually is very helpful, so are acad nerds. Put your idea out there and someone will collab in replies. Or you can shoot off your idea under a prompt replies. It is like dating, you have to put yourself out there first. BUT the benefit is long term humans who are more creative than probabilistic machine!

"What about spell check and proof reading.."

Let us get back to dictionaries and swiggly lines!! you can ask your community for help - be open to folks leaving comments with grammar corrections they find, read, revise and bobs your uncle

"I will be honest i need it to structure plots, scenes enmasse..."

Why not just directly lift from source. Pick a short story, a film script you like. You can get a lot free online, gutenberg, internet archive etc. And slowly rewrite it with your characters, if you get comfortable - change some traits, dialogue as you fancy. make them more canon characterisation. It the same. but you do have to choose a film or show or short story to begin with - i guess that is one trade off vs genai which chooses everything for you. But it is fun. Write for spec!

"Ok that seems like a change but can be done..."

Exactly. and in return for the effort you get to learn your skill proper, and not destroy our planet to boot!

Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi and her huge dewy haunted brown eyes against the world

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