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AI Detection Won't Save You From Amazon, and Neither Will Running Away

A viral Substack post predicts AI detection will destroy indie publishing, but the real problem has never been the robots.

Apr 7, 2026

AI Labs Are Hiring Improv Actors to Teach Models How Human Emotion Actually Works

AI companies are recruiting improv performers to help models better understand authentic human emotion, a development that could improve the dialogue and character tools authors use every day.

Mar 15, 2026

Anthropic's AI Just Learned How to Dream (and Remember You)

A leaked Anthropic codebase reveals an AI that remembers you across sessions, runs in the background while you're away, dreams to consolidate its memories, and has a secret Tamagotchi pet system.

Apr 3, 2026

Art Schools Are Eating AI (Literally) and I Have Some Thoughts

A student ate an AI art piece in protest, Anthropic's job threat study is built on 2023 data, and the interface problem might matter more than the intelligence problem.

Apr 1, 2026

ChatGPT's Upcoming Adult Mode Will Focus on Written Erotica, Not Images

OpenAI has shelved its adult content feature for ChatGPT indefinitely, citing employee and investor concerns. The text-only mode that could have helped romance and erotica authors brainstorm mature scenes is no longer on the roadmap.

Mar 16, 2026

Your Brain Isn't Broken, You're Just Being Lazy

New research on 'cognitive surrender' sounds alarming until you realize we've been outsourcing thinking to authority figures since the dawn of civilization.

Apr 6, 2026

ChatGPT's New Default Model Writes Better Prose and Stops Lecturing You

OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Instant, now the default model for all ChatGPT users, delivers noticeably better creative writing and dramatically fewer unnecessary refusals.

Mar 5, 2026

Google Docs Can Now Match Your Writing Style Across an Entire Document

Google's latest Gemini update for Docs includes a 'Match Writing Style' tool that unifies tone and voice across a document, plus a revamped drafting assistant that pulls from your Gmail and Drive.

Mar 14, 2026

The New Loyalty Test Is 'Prove You're Human' and I Hate Everything About It

Eight competing 'AI-free' certification labels, zero proof readers care, and a whole lot of hoops for authors who were already doing the work.

Apr 4, 2026

OpenAI Is Cleaning House, Disney Is Holding the Bag, and Your AI Still Thinks You're a Genius

OpenAI killed Sora and shelved its adult chatbot in the same week, leaving Disney with a billion-dollar problem and the rest of us with a useful reminder about which AI bets actually pay off.

Mar 26, 2026

A Publisher Pulled a Book This Week. The Reason Should Worry You.

Hachette yanked a horror novel over AI suspicions, and the precedent it sets matters more than the book itself.

Mar 21, 2026

Your Book Trailer Just Got a Lot Cheaper (And Weirder)

OpenAI's Sora 2 is now powerful enough to make real book trailers, and the safety guardrails tell us something interesting about where AI video is headed.

Mar 24, 2026

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Can Now Hold Your Entire Manuscript in a Single Conversation

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 with a 1 million token context window, meaning you can feed an entire novel into a single session for analysis, continuity checking, or revision help.

Mar 10, 2026

Stop Learning Apps. Start Building Them.

The most underrated use of AI isn't generating words, it's building yourself a tool that does exactly one thing the way you need it done.

Mar 23, 2026

Sudowrite Adds Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.6, Giving Fiction Writers More Model Options

Sudowrite's latest update brings two of the most capable AI models available to its fiction writing tools, while also preserving access to older models being retired elsewhere.

Feb 28, 2026

Tech Reporters Are Building the Workflows Indie Authors Have Been Waiting For

A Wired piece on journalists using AI reveals a spectrum of approaches that maps perfectly onto the choices indie authors face every day.

Mar 28, 2026

Write Weirder Is Fun Advice, But It Misses the Point

The 'write weirder' defense against AI sounds great until you realize most commercially successful fiction isn't weird at all.

Apr 2, 2026