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AI writing
Claude AI can read and analyze an entire book at once — here’s how to use it
Reading Time: 19 minutes Claude can read a 75,000-word book and identify structural and style problems. It can also create outlines and character sheets.
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3 AI tools I use regularly that aren’t ChatGPT or Midjourney
Reading Time: 4 minutes I use Otter AI, Canva, and Notion nearly every day, and here is why other writers should, too.
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WGA backtracks on anti-AI stance, as long as writers get credit
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Writers Guild of America, which represents screenwriters, is backing off on its anti-AI stance, Variety reported today.
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AIs ‘learn’ by creating mini-AIs and it’s super weird but also very cool
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to a paper released last fall by researchers from Google, Stanford, and MIT, large language models learn new information and concepts by creating new, miniature machine learning systems on the fly.
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Google falling farther behind in AI race
Reading Time: 5 minutes Edge, Opera and Brave all now have AI built in. Google’s Chrome is not even in the race yet.
Study: Writing occupation will be most affected by AI
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to research released today, the more high-level and creative your job, the more likely it will be to be disrupted by AI. Top of the list? Writers and authors — with up to 100 percent of their jobs likely to be affected.
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GPT 4, Claude, and Alpaca all went live this week and yes, we need to worry
Reading Time: 8 minutes It was a big week for AI news these past few days. GPT 4 was released on Tuesday, Midjourney 5 was released on Wednesday, and Alpaca — a $600 clone of ChatGPT — was released on Monday. Yes, you can now have your own large language model for less than the cost of new phone
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ChatGPT is great – you’re just using it wrong
Reading Time: 5 minutes So it doesn’t have facts, per se. It just knows what word should come next. Put another way, ChatGPT doesn’t try to write sentences that are true. But it does try to write sentences that are plausible.
Is generative AI legal? Is it ethical? And can you copyright AI text or images?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Proponents argue that generative AI is transformative and therefore fair use. Opponents point to financial losses from AI deep fakes. And the Copyright Office won’t grant copyright to AI images. But all of this could change as lawsuits make their way through the courts and AI companies adapt their business models.
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Sci-fi magazine editors wary of AI spam, reluctant to charge for submissions
Reading Time: 7 minutes Sci-fi and fantasy magazine editors are discussing charging submission fees, changing submission schedules, limiting submissions to known authors, using AI-detection tools, and other means to combat AI spam.
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13 free AI detectors tested, why they don’t work, and what to do instead
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the battle against AI-generated spam, some people are turning to AI detectors to weed out AI-generated content. Unfortunately, they don’t work.
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7 top misconceptions about ChatGPT and writing
Reading Time: 10 minutes There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about what ChatGPT can do and how it works. Most people tend to fall on one of two extremes — either that it’s all-powerful and will destroy the writing profession, or that it’s completely useless. The actual truth is somewhere in the middle.
Clarkesworld swamped by AI spam, temporarily stops accepting submissions
Reading Time: 2 minutes Clarkesworld has temporary stopped accepting new short story submissions because of a flood of AI-generated spam.
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P.E.A.N.U.T.: 6 steps to staying ahead of AI as a fiction author
Reading Time: 11 minutes If you want to be successful as a human author in an age of AI-generated content, you will need to make your writing Personal, Emotional, Authoritative, New, Unique, and Trustworthy — PEANUT, for short.
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Yes, you can submit AI-assisted stories to us. But they better be good.
Reading Time: 6 minutes MetaStellar is now accepting works of fiction written with the help of AI assistants. Our next submission window for original fiction opens March 1, and we accept reprint and excerpts any time throughout the year.
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The Gartner Hype Cycle, the Dunning-Krueger Effect and the S-Curve, AI, and what they all mean for writers
Reading Time: 11 minutes As writers progress in their writing journeys, they may face a drop in confidence and obstacles along the way. To overcome these challenges, focus on core skills, keep practicing, and level up by learning a new skill that aligns with your goals.
11 writing aids that will be replaced by ChatGPT
Reading Time: 27 minutes I put ChatGPT through its paces and discover that it is an excellent writers’ assistant.
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Here’s what ChatGPT said about using ChatGPT for video games and VR!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey there! I’m ChatGPT, and I’m here to tell you all about the amazing things you can do with ChatGPT in video game development and virtual reality.
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12 AI Tools to Write your Novel For you
Reading Time: 20 minutes I played around with a dozen AI-writing tools. They can’t write a coherent story, but they can still be useful depending on your writing goals.
AI tools to create cool illustrations
Reading Time: 37 minutes How to use free and low-cost AI tools to create cool images for websites and social media.