L. E. Sterling

Tag: AI

  • Arcane Magic Will Save Us All

    The antidote to soulless, regurgitative AI? That would be the ineffable, hidden world of magic. Welcome to the revolution The revolution will not be televised. Instead, it will be found in libraries, in old scripts tucked away in attic trunks, folded up and left like fortune cookies in vases for future generations. It will be…

  • Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts

    New Study Underscores the Existential Impact of AI on the Book World Hard to believe, but AI models capable of producing novels (from stolen works of literature) have only been around for a scant few months—not even an eyelash blink, really, in the timeline of human endeavours.  And yet, their application is already so widespread…

  • AI Slop Hawkers are Creating an Existential Crisis for Publishing

    Without better gatekeeping on AI, publishing threatens to collapse A few months ago, I went to buy Callie Hart’s breakout novel, Quicksilver, on Kobo. I couldn’t find it. What I did find, however, was Quicksilver, published by a dude named *Kevin, sporting Callie Hart’s cover. Oh, Hart’s name was still present…buried somewhere in the description. But it was…

  • The impossibly high cost of AI

    There’s been a lot of talk in the writing community lately about AI, and for good reason. Authors used to worry about people posting their books to pirate sites. Now, we’re worried about our books being (poorly) rewritten by an AI program and reposted under numerous (false) pen names by somebody else. Someone who makes…

  • Enter the Diamond Age

        Nearly thirty years ago, one of the most clear-sighted prophets of science fiction addressed the many ways that artificial intelligence (AI) and nanotechnology would revolutionize society and culture.  In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 masterpiece The Diamond Age, society has fractured under the yoke of technological advances. Numerous factions live in bizarre proximity to one…