Valentina Gindri

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

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Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Closing date 8 November!

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again from Wallace can be funny, but also, like, thought-provoking...

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That’s not to say that insightful/intelligent writing/criticism doesn’t exist outside of traditional publications, but they have convinced the industry, even those major publications, that written criticism is not worth paying for. That it should only be a hobby or PR adjacent.

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Exalting TikTok film accounts as the future of film criticism, quoting Letterboxd reviews on trailers and posters, and centering influencers for press opportunities are all symptoms of how the industry wants to devalue thoughtful criticism. 1/2

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"Ti sento"
oil on canvas.

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#booksky #writingcommunity

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His manual, Escrever Ficção, is a brilliant reflection on character construction and the inner gears of the novel. A pity it has never been translated to English.
His latest novel, Leopold, tells the captivating fictionalised story of Leopold Mozart: the vertigo of being the father of a genius.

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He was responsible for creating the only Creative Writing bachelor’s degree in a Brazilian university, as well as the only research tracks in Creative Writing at the master’s and PhD levels, which allow candidates to submit fictional works as their theses.

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The Brazilian writer Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil has recently retired from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. Author of more than 20 novels, including prize-winning historical fiction, he has led the country’s most traditional creative writing workshop.

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I made a list of every literary magazine I could find on Bluesky. Follow them and share this post. The sooner they see Bluesky as a viable platform, the sooner they leave X.

go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

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"Amore mio" painting.
Oil on canvas.

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Read our ten questions with GBP Short Story Prize longlistee Valentina Gindri:

"[Something] that doesn’t work for me is ‘Ask yourself why you want to tell this story’. If I were to rationalize too much, I wouldn’t write a page."

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-05-gi...

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Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Absolutely delighted to have made the longlist for the Galley Beggar Prize 2024/2025 alongside such amazing stories. @galleybeggars.bsky.social

You can read my story "The Sound of the Shell" here:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

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