Weekly Update – June 13, 2023

Another slow week, but I passed 10,000 words on draft one of The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot book eight on Sunday, so that’s something.

Meanwhile on Twitter, the AI wags continue to push the glory of “creating” writing and art via AI programs, and I’ve come to notice that its champions always come from one of two places: they’re frustrated creatives lacking in talent or skill who resent being called out; or they’re Tech Bros out to make a buck on the backs of hard-working human creatives.

For example, this piece of hot garbage comes from a guy who owns, surprise surprise, a company specializing in publishing-related technology and is salivating over the prospect of replacing humans in the industry with AI. He talks a lot about giving gruntwork like formatting books over to AI, but he also thinks AI can do a better job of rooting through slush piles by being absolutely ruthless about things like spelling and grammar — two elements that could be bad news for folks using regional dialects or employing fictional languages (sci-fi and fantasy) — and at the end remarks that one day AI will be able to “can spin a tale that delights.”

So he’s also looking forward to making authors obsolete.

Yeah, fuck that noise.

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Draconian Measures: First draft complete.

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – untitled book eight: First draft underway

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

None scheduled

MISC.

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