Sandra Schwab

Dieser Skeet liest sich schon etwas zynisch, wenn man an die interne Broschüre denkt, die Ihr Haus herausgebracht hat. Gab's dazu eigentlich eine öffentliche Aufarbeitung?

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

If AI “authors” and “artists” are so proud of their use of plagiarism-bots, why do NONE of them label their work as AI-generated?

They all pretend they did it themselves because they *know* audiences hate it and *know* they will be judged for it.

Keep rejecting AI and support humans 💙📚

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

By the same token, I wouldn't want to listen to a Mozart sonata played by robot because while it can mimic playing music, that music doesn't have any life. The human emotion is missing - and that is an integral part of music.

Even if it could (and I don't think it can) - I wouldn't want to read whatever the glorified plagiarism machine has spit out. I want to read words written by a human being.

NYT question asks: Can AI chat box write emotionally rich romance? Since article is behind paywall, and I’m not paying, my answer is no. Even knowing they pirated and scraped all the books of every romance writer I know, I still say, no. What say you, Romancelandia??

And in contrast to the slop generated by the fucking plagiarism machine, my stories have heart. They're the result of my skills as a story-teller and my experiences as a human being.

I might not "generate" 200 books a year / a month / a week / whatever, but I'm certainly having a lot of fun writing my stories into existence.

A picture of the main gate of the Saalburg, a reconstructed Roman auxiliary fort. In the foreground is a stone on which sits a rubber duckie dressed like a Roman centurion.

And doing research onsite? BLISS!!! (Especially if there is good food!)

An open volume of Punch, the Victorian magazine, resting on a large book pillow.

And I love my primary resources (especially my Victorian magazines!!!)

The picture shows a close-up of one of Sandy's bookshelves, with a very fat book about the Colonia Ulpia Traiana sticking out of the neat row of books. On the cover of the book is a map of the Roman city, with the amphitheatre clearly recognizable in the right bottom corner.

I love the research books I use for the background research for my stories.

A bird's eye view of Sandy's desk with a Shire Library book about garden buildings. Most of the book is covered by a sheet of paper which shows a handdrawn map of a country estate with a house in the middle and the gardens full of garden follies.

I sometimes put together maps of the houses and gardens in my stories:

A bird's eye view of Sandy's desk with a closed notebook with a few loose sheets of paper sticking out. A pink post-it is stuck on top. Sandy's Alphasmart Neo rests on an open research book and the page shows reconstructed Roman carriages.

Or like this:

Picture shows bird's eye view of Sandy's desk with an open notebook and a black gel pen. The left page of the notebook is covered in handwritten text.

Or frequently like this:

Bird's eye view of Sandy's desk with the same character portraits as before, several sheets of loose paper in various sizes covered in handwritten notes, and an Alphasmart Neo. The Neo is a writing device that consists of a keyboard with an integrated mini screen that lets you see four lines of text.

Or it might look like this:

Picture shows a view across a camping table to the green grass of a camping lot in the background and a blooming rhododendron. On the table, there is a print-out of a manuscript with notes scribbled in the margins (in turquoise green), with a turquoise green gel pen lying next to it as well as character portraits of a freckled red-haired young man carrying a sword across his shoulders (not a particularly safe way to carry a sword, but hey...) and dark-skinned mixed-race man with short black hair. Neither of them wears any clothes because Sandy was impatient to render those portraits of her digital models and digital clothes tend to make her computer explode. Well... freeze more often than not.

What my writing process looks like:

The #1 rule about paying someone to teach you how to make money writing books is don't pay them if they won't even tell you what books they wrote that are making all the money.

the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers

The moderate position on AI is that anything made with AI should be labeled as such.

Here, she describes switching pen names so, if a reader figures out it’s AI and tries to boycott the “author,” they might unknowingly pick up one of her other books

SHE IS A GRIFTER

Very much same.

i just want to say one more thing, KU for a long time, at least in the romance space, was really well known for being the place where BIPOC authors were really thriving. So to have this be apartheid-Coral, a fucking white woman be the face of all this grift is even more disgusting than you realize.

I am also going to win, because I'm never going to wake up in the morning, stare into the empty eyes of the thing in the mirror, and realise I traded my soul and my children's world to make a small profit off slop.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

The whole thing is a scam. These AI writers are desperately churning out "books" under unending pen names, trying to fool people into thinking they are genuine books long enough to get money off them. It's a scam from beginning to end.

"Ms. Hart found Anthropic’s chatbot to be the most versatile..."

Yeah, because they fucking STOLE everyone else's real writing.

Which means she is, too.

FUCK THAT.