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VOICE ARCHIVE

Celeste Ng

@pronounced_ing
13 posts
2024-02-05
“It's precisely the kind of work that is uncomfortable for most artists, who by definition concern themselves with what it means to be a person in the world, not what it means to be a brand.” https://www.vox.com/...
2024-02-05 View on X
Vox

How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts

2024-02-04
“It's precisely the kind of work that is uncomfortable for most artists, who by definition concern themselves with what it means to be a person in the world, not what it means to be a brand.” https://www.vox.com/...
2024-02-04 View on X
Vox

How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts

So you want to be an artist.  Do you have to start a TikTok?  —  When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal … Threads: @joanwestenberg and @jonathangarelick Mast...

2023-08-08
Adding insult to injury, the site doing the “analysis” doesn't seem to understand what passive voice is, and arbitrarily assigns each word a “vividness” score, and then scores the book's “vividness” on that.
2023-08-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses

Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words R...

Speaking of which, this might be of interest to writers out there (and anyone else concerned about AI being trained on writing by humans, without consent): https://authorsguild.org/...
2023-08-08 View on X
Jane Friedman

An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint

Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.

I'm not worried about AI writing being *better* than works by actual humans. But I *am* worried about companies (wrongly) thinking they can replace human writers with AI. And companies should DEFINITELY not be able to train AI on other people's work w/o consent or compensation.
2023-08-08 View on X
Jane Friedman

An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint

Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.

Adding insult to injury, the site doing the “analysis” doesn't seem to understand what passive voice is, and arbitrarily assigns each word a “vividness” score, and then scores the book's “vividness” on that.
2023-08-08 View on X
Jane Friedman

An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint

Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.

I'm not worried about AI writing being *better* than works by actual humans. But I *am* worried about companies (wrongly) thinking they can replace human writers with AI. And companies should DEFINITELY not be able to train AI on other people's work w/o consent or compensation.
2023-08-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses

Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words R...

I count 20 @StephenKing books, 20 @jodipicoult books, plus books by tons of other contemporary writers (@legroff, Madeline Miller, Angie Thomas... just search and they're pretty much in there). Did any of these authors/publishers consent to this use of their work?
2023-08-08 View on X
Jane Friedman

An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint

Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.

I count 20 @StephenKing books, 20 @jodipicoult books, plus books by tons of other contemporary writers (@legroff, Madeline Miller, Angie Thomas... just search and they're pretty much in there). Did any of these authors/publishers consent to this use of their work?
2023-08-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses

Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words R...

Speaking of which, this might be of interest to writers out there (and anyone else concerned about AI being trained on writing by humans, without consent): https://authorsguild.org/...
2023-08-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses

Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words R...

2022-02-07
So, in response to complaints about targeted harassment and threats of violence... Twitter is making it EASIER for people to harass you? One-click harassment! Read the room, Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-07 View on X
The Verge

Twitter tests adding a DM icon to tweets on iOS to help “start a conversation”; some say the shortcut could make users even more susceptible to harassment

Emma Roth / The Verge :

2020-05-05
“At the end of the day, the big problem isn't the specifics of Covid-19 response. It's that Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only that's not just Amazon, it's how 21st-century capitalism is done.” https://www.tbray.org/...
2020-05-05 View on X
VICE

Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers

’ says Google, Comcast, and Huawei got in touch Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Amazon exec quits after company fires employee activists Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill : Amazon V...

2020-05-04
“At the end of the day, the big problem isn't the specifics of Covid-19 response. It's that Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only that's not just Amazon, it's how 21st-century capitalism is done.” https://www.tbray.org/...
2020-05-04 View on X
VICE

Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers

Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been …