Dare I ask (remember me?) after your process here? If this is you entirely freehand, I am applauding. If this is you + (enter model here) in any of the various configurations we had discussed (fought about? I'm fine with that, you fight with valor), I am applauding. If it's none of my business, well.... okay, this realm of fiction is not really my thing but, I am applauding. Feel free to look over my stuff. It isn't this, but I think it's good work too. I have to, I am editor-author-publisher-harshest critic all in one old bachelor in a trailer house, and damn demanding of my work. Welcome any time. Hint: read the story, not the writer...
I agree with you there — it’s all about the story, not the writer.
What you read on Black Moon Journal, or my other site Silverwood Stories, is entirely my own, every word. I’ve been using Notebook LM to keep the plot coherent and make sure that everything flows logically. In this kind of supernatural espionage thriller, tight plotting is vital and I need to be sure that I haven’t left anything unmotivated. Notebook operates off my own texts, and it’s been very helpful in brainstorming directions for the storyline. But it doesn’t contribute a thing to the published text. For graphics and images I am a little more lax, working with Adobe Firefly and Affinity to get the characters and covers looking the way I want. They do photorealistic renderings of my own original sketchwork, though. Rendering from scratch just doesn’t work well. Providing a sketch starts the bots off in the right direction.
I will have a look at your stuff. And thanks for subscribing!
See, I knew I liked how you think. And frankly, your apples look suspiciously like bluebirds now and then. I think what we established with that elegant bout before is that there is probably little grounds for purism in this BrAIve new world, and that if there is now, there might not be tomorrow, or by election day or whatever. Earlier today I had a shorter exchange on this liveliest topic of the season, and suggested flippantly that it won't be long before sites have buttons to press, flagging content as (wait for it) human slop.
Stranger things have happened, and stranger still are a certainty. Months ago I had my own flirtation with purism on exactly what we discussed, a thing that's already obsolete called 'authorship attribution'; talking white papers, dissertations, product launches, etc, all promising (sorta) some kind of new tech for 'AI detection', as if half the commenters on Youtube couldn't already spot an LLM newsreader script out of TVP World in Warsaw (commonplace by now.)
Turns out, those white papers and dissertations and whatnot? Most were, conspicuously, AI slop. It passed, that silly fad, SO-O-O 2025. We're the wagon trains lost in the Great Basin in 1850 here, still dreaming of all that gold half a continent away. We have no clue what we're supposed to do with silly notions like right and wrong and good faith vs bad here. What we did today was laboratory work. Scholars not yet born will find it and have a good laugh.
Dare I ask (remember me?) after your process here? If this is you entirely freehand, I am applauding. If this is you + (enter model here) in any of the various configurations we had discussed (fought about? I'm fine with that, you fight with valor), I am applauding. If it's none of my business, well.... okay, this realm of fiction is not really my thing but, I am applauding. Feel free to look over my stuff. It isn't this, but I think it's good work too. I have to, I am editor-author-publisher-harshest critic all in one old bachelor in a trailer house, and damn demanding of my work. Welcome any time. Hint: read the story, not the writer...
I agree with you there — it’s all about the story, not the writer.
What you read on Black Moon Journal, or my other site Silverwood Stories, is entirely my own, every word. I’ve been using Notebook LM to keep the plot coherent and make sure that everything flows logically. In this kind of supernatural espionage thriller, tight plotting is vital and I need to be sure that I haven’t left anything unmotivated. Notebook operates off my own texts, and it’s been very helpful in brainstorming directions for the storyline. But it doesn’t contribute a thing to the published text. For graphics and images I am a little more lax, working with Adobe Firefly and Affinity to get the characters and covers looking the way I want. They do photorealistic renderings of my own original sketchwork, though. Rendering from scratch just doesn’t work well. Providing a sketch starts the bots off in the right direction.
I will have a look at your stuff. And thanks for subscribing!
See, I knew I liked how you think. And frankly, your apples look suspiciously like bluebirds now and then. I think what we established with that elegant bout before is that there is probably little grounds for purism in this BrAIve new world, and that if there is now, there might not be tomorrow, or by election day or whatever. Earlier today I had a shorter exchange on this liveliest topic of the season, and suggested flippantly that it won't be long before sites have buttons to press, flagging content as (wait for it) human slop.
Stranger things have happened, and stranger still are a certainty. Months ago I had my own flirtation with purism on exactly what we discussed, a thing that's already obsolete called 'authorship attribution'; talking white papers, dissertations, product launches, etc, all promising (sorta) some kind of new tech for 'AI detection', as if half the commenters on Youtube couldn't already spot an LLM newsreader script out of TVP World in Warsaw (commonplace by now.)
Turns out, those white papers and dissertations and whatnot? Most were, conspicuously, AI slop. It passed, that silly fad, SO-O-O 2025. We're the wagon trains lost in the Great Basin in 1850 here, still dreaming of all that gold half a continent away. We have no clue what we're supposed to do with silly notions like right and wrong and good faith vs bad here. What we did today was laboratory work. Scholars not yet born will find it and have a good laugh.