Litbowl
@litbowl
I share beautiful words from beautiful books. Mostly poetry. Some prose. Always attributed, always pro-author, and generative AI is theft. (All photos original. All rights reserved by original authors.) Get books here:
Saw on a random house on the way to a cafe today, is this your headquarters??
My local bar had this up very briefly until enough of us said ”absolutely not”. The font was so messed up that it was impossible to tell what some of the food specials even were.
You can see the edges of one here for some slop app for finding local beer (?), but someone covered it up…
I think their specific take on them, at the very bottom of the longer report (not blog post) is reasonable and right. I think ignoring the best ones ENTIRELY may be foolish given the exhaustive nature of this massive fraud and the potential aid, but never ever to be relied on.
Thank you @bonabooks.bsky.social for these recommendations. I have been messaging with various small presses for years, encouraging public, robust anti-AI policies, with a frustrating mix of results. I hope this will help push that further forward in a unified fashion. #booksky #publishing
My hometown is doing alright. The guys at the table next to me at the coffee shop saw the anti-AI sticker on my laptop and asked where I got it, I said I made it and showed them the stack I carry around, and they asked if they could buy a set.
Make a point of visiting each of the bookstores when I’m back in my hometown, just grabbed @isabel.kim’s Sublimation from Grass Roots in Corvallis, very excited to read. #booksky
From @toddedillard.bsky.social‘s book, Ways We Vanish. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/9781733244121 #poem #booksky #writing
ConEd sending out an email on how to lower your energy costs, illustrated with an AI theft slop image. The irony is just incredible.
From @chenchenwrites.bsky.social's book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. Get it here: bit.ly/chenchenpossibilities #poem #booksky #writing
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496 #poem #booksky #writing
This is a particularly insidious new thing from Meta! If you share a story on IG, that was unknowingly originally filmed with pervert glasses, they'll notify your followers as if you were using the pervert glasses, to increase acceptance of pervert glasses. Be careful what you share, and F that!