PlutoDetective
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You don't have to be a member to tell SFWA how you feel about AI.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
You don't have to be a member to tell SFWA how you feel about AI.
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
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So if the wheels of a 200000 Euro transport container break and a 20 million Euro satellite spills onto the tarmac, because the machine translation system did not catch that the author of the source text got "brake" and "break" mixed up, hey, at least you saved a few hundred bucks for a translator.
December 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
So if the wheels of a 200000 Euro transport container break and a 20 million Euro satellite spills onto the tarmac, because the machine translation system did not catch that the author of the source text got "brake" and "break" mixed up, hey, at least you saved a few hundred bucks for a translator.
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If you apply this to legal or technical documents, mistakes can have massive consequences. A contract might become invalid or a very expensive piece of machinery might break. Worst case scenario, e.g. with mistranslated medical documents, is that someone dies.
December 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you apply this to legal or technical documents, mistakes can have massive consequences. A contract might become invalid or a very expensive piece of machinery might break. Worst case scenario, e.g. with mistranslated medical documents, is that someone dies.
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If you want to see terrible machine translation, just look at any online store that feels the need to translate its offerings into the language of the country you're browsing from. You'll get wrong words, brandnames and proper names translated, mistakes that a human would never make.
December 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you want to see terrible machine translation, just look at any online store that feels the need to translate its offerings into the language of the country you're browsing from. You'll get wrong words, brandnames and proper names translated, mistakes that a human would never make.
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Oh sorry, one more
I would not ever take the output of any software translation as accurate. Even excluding hallucinations (and that's a big exclude), what you're not getting from it is context dependent meanings (like homophones, idioms, slang, etc). Fastest way to accidentally insult someone
I would not ever take the output of any software translation as accurate. Even excluding hallucinations (and that's a big exclude), what you're not getting from it is context dependent meanings (like homophones, idioms, slang, etc). Fastest way to accidentally insult someone
December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Oh sorry, one more
I would not ever take the output of any software translation as accurate. Even excluding hallucinations (and that's a big exclude), what you're not getting from it is context dependent meanings (like homophones, idioms, slang, etc). Fastest way to accidentally insult someone
I would not ever take the output of any software translation as accurate. Even excluding hallucinations (and that's a big exclude), what you're not getting from it is context dependent meanings (like homophones, idioms, slang, etc). Fastest way to accidentally insult someone
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As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work.
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Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
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Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
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December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
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Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
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Kinda weird/terrible to think about how Mr. Rogers would be considered radical antifa by today's standards and he was a Republican pastor.
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Kinda weird/terrible to think about how Mr. Rogers would be considered radical antifa by today's standards and he was a Republican pastor.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
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The trade-off for getting pretty things for free from the plagiarism machine that steals work from starving artists and poisons communities is that those artists and the people living in those communities get to drag you. If you are such a sensitive snowflake that you can't handle it, don't use AI.
December 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The trade-off for getting pretty things for free from the plagiarism machine that steals work from starving artists and poisons communities is that those artists and the people living in those communities get to drag you. If you are such a sensitive snowflake that you can't handle it, don't use AI.
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O medo do colonizador é que, se sobrar um colonizado, esse colonizado continue, como testemunha, a manter a memória da violência colonial que fundou a bonança daqueles que roubaram aquele lugar.
O sonho do colonialista é a aniquilação completa do colonizado. Toda noite o colonizador sua frio.
O sonho do colonialista é a aniquilação completa do colonizado. Toda noite o colonizador sua frio.
Sempre penso na quantidade de filmes de terror americanos que se justificam com estarem sobre um cemitério indígena. É a demonstração perfeita do fenômeno psicológico do medo e do remorso do vencedor de não ter vencido completamente. De ainda ter sobrado algum. De ainda poder ser derrotado.
dizem que quanto mais amaldiçoado é um lugar, mais provável é que tenha sido construído em cima de um cemitério indígena. acho que isso explica o brasil
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
O medo do colonizador é que, se sobrar um colonizado, esse colonizado continue, como testemunha, a manter a memória da violência colonial que fundou a bonança daqueles que roubaram aquele lugar.
O sonho do colonialista é a aniquilação completa do colonizado. Toda noite o colonizador sua frio.
O sonho do colonialista é a aniquilação completa do colonizado. Toda noite o colonizador sua frio.
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If they're going to award Nebulas for partial LLM-created works then I want a piece of those Nebulas since my work was stolen to create them.
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If they're going to award Nebulas for partial LLM-created works then I want a piece of those Nebulas since my work was stolen to create them.
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Every day, and especially today (and yesterday and tomorrow, and so on), trans rights are human rights.
December 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Every day, and especially today (and yesterday and tomorrow, and so on), trans rights are human rights.
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"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us the future is already settled and decided"
this is SO GOOD
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is super on point, per usual
this is SO GOOD
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is super on point, per usual
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us the future is already settled and decided"
this is SO GOOD
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is super on point, per usual
this is SO GOOD
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is super on point, per usual
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Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
@derryday.bsky.social MY DARLINGEST, PAGING YOU AND SNOOPY!!!! THEY'RE MAKING THAT BOOK INTO A MOVIE!!!
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
@derryday.bsky.social MY DARLINGEST, PAGING YOU AND SNOOPY!!!! THEY'RE MAKING THAT BOOK INTO A MOVIE!!!
The person turned off replies and quotes, so not tagging them to respect that, but someone just called Dracula a loser has-been, and that made me realize him moving because the Transylvanians know his tricks is the vampire equivalent of "he goes for teenagers because women his age won't have him."
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The person turned off replies and quotes, so not tagging them to respect that, but someone just called Dracula a loser has-been, and that made me realize him moving because the Transylvanians know his tricks is the vampire equivalent of "he goes for teenagers because women his age won't have him."
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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
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Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
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Putting this out here so you can say, "I submitted to them before they were rich and famous." Which is obviously a super realistic goal for a lit mag.
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Putting this out here so you can say, "I submitted to them before they were rich and famous." Which is obviously a super realistic goal for a lit mag.
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Meaning that the players/consumers, whose rent and groceries don't depend on pretending to go along with this shit, need to be loud on the "fuck, no!"
I'm fairly confident none of the creative people are okay with using it, but they like being able to pay their rent and pay for groceries.
These stupid fuckers desperately want to believe everyone agrees with them, and take lack of "Fuck, no!" as agreement.
These stupid fuckers desperately want to believe everyone agrees with them, and take lack of "Fuck, no!" as agreement.
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Meaning that the players/consumers, whose rent and groceries don't depend on pretending to go along with this shit, need to be loud on the "fuck, no!"