- Kelly Jensen has great suggestions for librarians preparing for Pride this year. (Book Riot)
- Rob Beschizza catches some writers in the act of using AI in their novels. (Boing Boing)
- Molly Templeton likes magic in novels that doesn’t follow rules. (Reactor)
- Lolita C. Baldor reports that previously removed books are headed back to the shelves at the US Naval Academy. (AP)
- James Dubinsky looks to veterans’ poetry to see what we can discover. (Daily JSTOR)
- Fred Lunzer wonders about literary realism, genre fiction, and our increasingly chaotic reality. (LitHub)
- Lincoln Michel addresses the Chicago Sun-Times‘s AI fuck-up and how AI fosters laziness. (Counter Craft)
- Karen Fischer talked to rural librarians about the potential (devastating) effects freezing or eliminating IMLS funding will have, even with cases in court challenging the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. (Publishers Weekly)
- Malinda Lo takes the South Carolina government to task for banning books about sex, including her own. (South Carolina Daily Gazette)
- …and censorship news, courtesy of the lovely people of Book Riot.
I’m late at discovering these AI prompts in the middle of novels. Insert 3 facepalm emojis and lots of exclamation marks! I was wondering how those writers could write/publish so much (600 pages volumes in a series), now I wonder no more…
Researchers have been getting caught using AI in their papers for at least a year now in the same way, by leaving text from the AI in their papers: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/03/20/the-latest-crisis-is-the-research-literature-overrun-with-chatgpt-and-llm-generated-articles/
I was just a matter of time before a novel writer got caught doing the same.