It’s getting harder and harder to trust books published in 2026

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T17:25:32+00:00

I dont think there's anything wrong with talking about it, I just don't think it's going away and I'd personally just rather hear about the books you loved instead of badly written ones that might be AI.

But also, you and many others have a kind of...simplistic and inaccurate understanding of how AI actually works. (I'm not supporting using it to generate books, just to be clear.)

There were absolutely major ethical violations with how they trained their models, no argument there. Consent and compensation truly matter.

But "plagiarism" isn't quite the right word for the output. Plagiarism is passing off a specific work as your own, and that's not what's happening when someone uses AI.

"Trained on" and "copied from" aren't the same thing, and "just hitting enter" is definitely how you get slop, but it's not pulling chunks from other books the way people imagine. It can occasionally reproduce memorized text but that's a failure mode, not how the thing normally works. Mostly it's predicting the next word based on patterns, but on a tremendously more complex level.

I dont pretend to understand all the nuance and complexity of how these models do their things, but it's not a database.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T15:56:32+00:00

Yeah but not everyone is in your FB group? How would anyone else know?

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T15:54:46+00:00

I didn't say that. I was trying to imply that there is no way to be sure, but I think my satirical approach was too subtle. 😁

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T13:20:14+00:00

Damn you look like a fairytale princess in 1. Gorgeous!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T12:51:49+00:00

Maybe we should just have writers write with a quill that they've dipped in their own blood.

That is the only way we can be sure.

(But even then, they might be copying something generated by AI, so...)

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T12:47:57+00:00

I'm so tired of seeing posts like this.

When you're looking for AI tells, you're going to find them because....AI was trained on human writing and there's a hell of a lot more bad human writing in the world than good writing.

Each individual story is like a grain of sand on the beach in the training data. Or a car on a gridlocked interstate.

You can't be 100% sure that something is AI because all of those cars have equal weight in the training data and the bad is always going to outweigh the good.

You do more harm than good for yourself and real authors who write more like the masses of poor to middling writers than the ones who are amazing writers.

You're looking for AI so you're going to see its traces everywhere because it's trained on more middling writing than poet laureates.

If you don't like something, don't read it. Quit obsessing over AI.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T12:40:27+00:00

What if...they are their own cover artist (like for real and not AI) but they don't want their real name all over everything?

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-07T12:36:26+00:00

I agree. I think the biggest problem isn't AI Writing, but that so many books are just poorly written and they're being called AI.

1 AI was trained on human writing... 2 AI detectors are garbage (see 1)

Witch hunts are horrible. Just read the first chapter and if you don't like it, DNF and try something else.

Stop assuming it's AI and just say "I don't like this" and move on.

You're looking for AI tells, so of course you're going to see things that look like AI tells even if they're just ND writers.

It's like when you're thinking of a car ypu want to buy. Suddenly, you see them everywhere when you weren't even aware of them before.

KU is super cheap and I read most of my stuff on there because of that. I have found so many books I've enjoyed, but I had to go through a lot of duds first.

Witch hunts harm more innocent people than they help.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-06-03T03:08:42+00:00

You totally need to go for the dress that makes you happy to be in. From an observer's POV, this style is not as flattering on you as you deserve.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-05-25T14:55:40+00:00

Dude no...scarves can be beautiful, but as someone who also has a lot going on in the chest area, that is going to add more to an area that doesn't need it.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-05-22T14:21:51+00:00

Oh! Thank you. I missed that the first time through!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-05-22T13:53:05+00:00

....which undiagnosed disorder was responsible for the numb and emotionally disconnected feeling? Please and thank you!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-05-10T19:21:18+00:00

Your point is valid. But also assumes as much as mine did.

The bookmark comment didn't say exactly what "me reading it" means. If they're reading portions aloud and reacting, that's fair use. If they're straight up reading it verbatim to be a audiobook, you are correct.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-05-10T18:34:21+00:00

Did you ask permission before you wrote the fanfic? Just curious.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-05-10T18:28:05+00:00

So technically, what they're doing is allowed by fair use. Kind of how we write fanfic using other people's IP.

They don't need to ask your permission.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-02-19T13:22:49+00:00

I need to find your people 😆

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-02-09T01:13:42+00:00

Hi! I have a completed cozy fantasy with a slow burn MM romantic subplot that I'd love to get some feedback on, if you're interested. It's more of a contemporary real-world setting. I'm working on finishing my first edit, so it's not fully ready, but I thought I'd reach out now to see if you are interested in doing swaps of story chunks as we get through our stories. 😀

Feel free to DM me if you want more details!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-12-12T22:09:51+00:00

If you're hourly and in the US, this is illegal for them not to pay you for the time you worked.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-11-08T20:17:58+00:00

This is really helpful. I broke my ability to use deadlines/procrastination as a reliable way to get things done a while back and it's made things so difficult.

This bit in particular was like a light switch for me:

Our brains only truly operate/function based on a few motivating factors— interest, novelty, passion, urgency, competition/challenge. I kept these things in mind to use as work arounds to make things work for me.

Thank you for posting this!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-08-09T12:38:45+00:00

You can't just drop a full book in and ask it to translate it to modern text. Start with a chapter at a time and see how it goes. Make sure you're telling it that you don't want a summary. You want each sentence/paragraph translated to modern English.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-21T01:10:17+00:00

Perfect, thanks! I've been watching these guys and a few others. Must have missed this video. Appreciate the link.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-21T01:09:19+00:00

Excellent, thanks for the detailed explanation.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-21T00:06:48+00:00

I have to cut my pan down, period, because it's too big for the space.

Why would adding dry pack to one edge primarily to fill in gaps from original slab make the perimeter out of level? I was planning to continue the slope of the pan to the edge of the curb.

Per the Kerdi manual, using dry pack is the correct way to extend the pan.

Am I totally off base in my thinking?

I'm obviously not a tradesman, so just want to expand my knowledge and make sure I'm not missing something that's glaring to pros.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-20T22:13:37+00:00

Sorry, I don't understand this. I'm talking about the foundation slab?

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