Paul Benson
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Terrible at self-promotion. Not bad at writing. Okay at being queer.
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The news that AI was being trained on stolen works?
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus
Recent literature has underscored the importance of dataset documentation work for machine learning, and part of this work involves addressing "documentation debt" for datasets that have been used wid...
arxiv.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The news that AI was being trained on stolen works?
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
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I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
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12% public approval is an actual sign of failure.
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
12% public approval is an actual sign of failure.
Oh my. I’m in love with this.
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Oh my. I’m in love with this.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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This is my biggest worry: that it's going to tank discovery for new authors because there's so much slop that people can't find anything worthwhile
The thing I worry about is the complete obliteration of self-publishing of at least non-web serials. Like if for every genuine book available, there's 1000 ai-slop books, however are you supposed to find anything?
December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is my biggest worry: that it's going to tank discovery for new authors because there's so much slop that people can't find anything worthwhile
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It all just feels like the Apple Crush ad at this point: people who are like "what if you didn't have to take the time to think and ponder and be creative, and something just extruded content on your behalf?"
what.... what would be the point of that?
what.... what would be the point of that?
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It all just feels like the Apple Crush ad at this point: people who are like "what if you didn't have to take the time to think and ponder and be creative, and something just extruded content on your behalf?"
what.... what would be the point of that?
what.... what would be the point of that?