The Darc

The Anthropic settlement makes it a must-do going forward.

I have that same one! Some books just hit better as an old paperback.

Wow, you get an actual letter? That's so ... official and awesome.

Amazing and heartwarming book. I don't have much of a platform but if even one more person picks this up because I said so, the world will be just a tiny bit better. #booksky

Okay, that's a stronger effect that what I was imagining.

All the things that AI does are from patterns it locked onto in its data. So they’ll be there in human writing, just not as frequently or exaggerated or poorly executed. Maybe the writer was tired at that point and patterned cliche writing took over for a time?

When my teenager has friends over, it reminds me of being in public places and overhearing random boring conversations that are appropriately loud and you just have to try and tune them out because you’re stuck in that space for a time.

But inside my own house.

Ravaged by the Gingerbread Man Kara's bakery is struggling to make ends meet, and with…

I'm very sorry about this.

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The ChatGPT book covers are the real starting point. From there, you'd better prove humanity immediately, which (based on the free preview of this book only, admittedly a small sample but with enough to make me suspicious of AI use and nothing to say only a human would do that) this book fails.

Dammit, I got confused with Abraham's urban fantasy pen name. Turns out it's something completely different. Doh.

I question the legitimacy of many of the reviews. There are certain patterns to them, and the overall score is suspiciously high for the number of ratings. It's not remotely the kind of book that would skew that strongly naturally.

I don't know the language but I understand this completely.

I know, I'm just playing off the fact that Daniel Abraham is 1.5 of them.

Corey, Carey, what’s the difference, right?

Just in time for the first @372pages.bsky.social free-to-all episode covering this masterpiece, a giveaway for 100 print copies of the book was just launched by the publisher (US residents only, sorry). www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Really, with a book like this, aren't we all winners?

Just remember: it's i before e, except after ... well fuck.

Playstation 2 console with Playstation 1 game Alundra case and instruction booklet.

Physical game disc, double-wide case, full colour embossed game manual, wired controller … Alundra is go! This game does not hold your hand. #retrogaming
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I’m playing this right now! Well, started a couple months ago, playing when I can. Finally cleared the reptile lair after several irritating losses.

If you don't know the extent of AI books, here are 374 I've categorized. Tip of the iceberg. 💙📚

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That backwards 'R' is so, so clever.

Let me know if he answers. 💀

This is me. I'm that dad.

That's me. I'm that dad.

The perfect promo for Brown's new book coming out this fall. 📚💙

Book cover: Seduced by the Pumpkin Spice Latte by Evelyn Cloves. Picture is a PSL being held by a woman (seen only from the lips down) in two hands, done in warm tones.

My free Kindle Unlimited trial came just in time this year. 📚💙

I'm just smurfed that it took 19 people to write for the Smurfs.

Title page: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

‘Crowds of young men swaggered beerily to and fro, …’

🪐📚💙

Around page 100 she's naked again, and apparently she has enchanted her underwear (not currently worn) to give off bright light on command, because ...??? 🪐📚💙

Mayyyyybbe some of them get better after Wizards of the Coast takes over. The recent years I'm reading with Brian Thomsen as head of books for TSR, in which he alienated most of their popular writers, are especially woeful.

A guy can hope.

This looks awesome!