Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

this is adorable! i love your papercraft cats :)

I always try to hammer home art is a trade skill, it needs to be seen as a hands-on labor occupation. It's not an indulgence, it's real work, real sweat, real time investment.

genAI arguments only make as much headway as they do because people don't see art that way

If you think that saying “get out of here, you jerk” is worse than sending people out of this country, away from friends and family, to be imprisoned without a trial, your civility is rotten all the way through.

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