James Yu
jamesyu.bsky.social
James Yu
@jamesyu.bsky.social
at the service of writers and artists / founder sudowrite / sci-fi writer / generative literature / founded parse (yc s11)
Reposted by James Yu
Wanting to strictly police how other people use their compute is fascist behavior
October 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is the right ruling! If an artist or writer uses AI as part of a larger process copyright protection should be granted www.theverge.com/news/602096/...
Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
AI prompts are different from Jackson Pollock’s paintings, apparently.
www.theverge.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Japan is liberal about tearing down old buildings to make way for the new.

Japan is liberal on AI and copyright, allowing training without restrictions.

These feel connected.
November 24, 2024 at 2:17 AM
My pet peeve is when ai creativity studies use gpt 3.5 turbo that involve human feedback. That’s two generations behind. It's like doing a study on video game graphics and asking people to play pong
November 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
is anyone building an abstraction for rich text editing in browsers as outlined here (that is not dependent on content-editable)?
https://writer.zohopublic.com/writer/published/djw8l10ba521e51a34c2488530291ebf76dbf
July 5, 2023 at 8:03 PM
The whole wordcel vs shape rotator thing is a psyop to divide us: we are all symbol shifters
May 7, 2023 at 5:12 PM
The Metamorphosis but Gregor wakes up as an LLM
May 3, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Interesting WGA is taking issue with AI generated source material. Is this primarily a credits thing? Or something else?
May 2, 2023 at 2:04 PM
It’s hilarious to me that AGI will most likely be written in python
May 2, 2023 at 1:44 AM
Frog and Toad on apple+ is one of the most faithful adaptations of a children’s story that I’ve ever seen. And it’s the most wholesome thing since Bluey, something the world needs
April 30, 2023 at 10:41 PM
One striking thing that I learned at my time at Facebook was that if they had let the feed algo loose and not tuned it, most of the feed would have been videos of police car chases and polarizing local news, overwhelming friend content.

Says a lot about engagement
April 30, 2023 at 3:29 AM
Hello 👋

I’m James, a friendly maker that loves to build tools to make your life better. I’m currently building Sudowrite, an AI assistant for narrative writers.

Excited to type many strings here. ✍️📝
April 29, 2023 at 2:53 AM