S.T. VejeMar 10, 2024

#WritersCoffeeClub 10/3 - Do you want to write full time or are you happy for it to be a hobby?

It's my dream and my aim to one day be able to live off of my writing, but I'm well aware that certain people hate with a white-hot fury the idea of creative types being able to make even the most modest of livings from their craft, and these people sadly seem to have an outsized influence and power. So realistically, I probably won't be so lucky.

Show threadS.T. VejeMar 10, 2024

#WritersCoffeeClub 10/3 - Continued.

I admit to a certain degree of resentment that, right when I'm finally about to finish my first novel, after many years of struggling to get this far, these people are feverishly working to make writers "obsolete" with so-called "AI". I hope I'm right that it's a bunch of over-blown hype, but even so, the modern world is already incredibly unappreciative of the arts even without "AI" shitting all over it.

Show threadJames Heartland
@stveje Talked to a techbro that tried and failed to publish an AI-written novel on Amazon. Several categories of books have already been overtaken by ai trash (children’s books and foraging guides), but hopefully the long form novel takes longer to get good enough to sell to the apathetic masses.
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Show threadS.T. VejeMar 11, 2024
@jheart Even if it isn't good enough to write a novel worth reading, it's still doing harm: Millions of spam books making it hard to find real books; reviews becoming useless; publishers having to expend resources on sorting AI trash from real submissions, and genuine authors either being missed in the pile of junk or accused of having used AI; writers being expected to produce more, faster, for less money because they can "just use AI" etc etc