Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

New language for our publisher guidelines? "We don't knowingly sell titles that employ generative AI in any capacity. If we find out a particular title was created using AI, we reserve the right to remove AI-generated portions or delete the title from our offerings entirely." Opinions welcome

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Watson Neith @watsonneith.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 18:47 UTC

I'd suggest striking "to remove AI-generated portions" and stick to simply deleting the title from your offerings entirely. As written, removing portions of a work puts the onus on you to determine what those are and how to excise them. That's complicated. IE, what if the author claims it wasn't AI?

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BeccaM @beccam.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 19:09 UTC

Opinion: I'm hittin' that Follow button. *applause*

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Stephen Cox Author only more so @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 08:59 UTC

Very good. May everyone else follow.

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@ropty.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 14, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

Is this the start of the Butlerian Jihad? Probably a good thing in the long run.

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DefilerWyrm | Tom @defilerwyrm.art [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 10:33 UTC

Taking the principled stance, love to see this 👏

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

Sounds solid. Well done.

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Fiona West/London Price 🌈📚🩵 @fionawestauthor.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 15:07 UTC

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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✡️Sarcastic Barbie לֵאָה (tradwife arc)👩🏽‍🦽 @sarcasticbarbie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

Please accept this like & follow as support of this

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Dr. Redfern Jon Barrett @redfernjon.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 09:02 UTC

I've added a disclaimer to my website: "Redfern does not use generative AI for any part of their writing at any stage." I suggest other authors to the same. If you don't want to write, then don't be a writer!

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Erica Friedman @okazu.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 13:14 UTC

Fabulous.

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Janeishly @janeishly.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 21:53 UTC

I hope that pic is going to be made into a t-shirt/poster/Batman-style sky-projected logo?

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Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 02, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

art by Earth Liberation Studio

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sureva varis @crowgirl42.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

My opinion is that you now have a new follower.

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we are all Palestinians @amberlizt.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 01:27 UTC

👏🏻👏🏻

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Max Oakland @maxoakland.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

This is good

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 15:16 UTC

(hits the Follow button)

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

Incidentally, all credit to @scarletferret.com who gave us the idea: scarletferret.com/forauthors/a...

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Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

That earned a follow and probably a submission at some point. 👏

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Display Name @shmegegge.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

It's good.

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Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

Thank you

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@twarda.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 10:09 UTC

That's an excellent poster design ngl

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Zeph B. @zeph06.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 18:50 UTC

Books written by AI aren’t books. They’re code.

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NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

Works for me.

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Drift @inanity101.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 02:53 UTC

My opinion: Hell yeah!

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 02:24 UTC

I have a 4kw story that was the result of idly riffing off a 1-line post from a Twitter bot. According to everyone I've shown it to it slaps. I'm getting hassled to sub it. It's about consequences of ubiquitous AI, but its unique launch point is that line. I have no idea if it's even worth subbing

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaefer.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

Thank you for this.

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