If you want to be removed from the literary business just fucking quit
More and more writers are crossing their moral line and giving in to AI, writing OpEds on why its “okay” to use it and over explaining it away as to how it helps them get ideas and helps them not to suffer the process of creation. All I’m getting from this is, people who have no idea how to write, who don’t care to learn the art of storytelling, finally have a cheat that allows them to be “a writer” and compete with people that are actually doing the fucking work without it, and have been.
Let’s get it straight – AI is the sum of all things automation.
That’s right. Caving to the AI is the new tech and if you don’t adapt, you’ll be left behind crowd is eventually going to remove you, said writer, from the market and eliminate completely your ability to be paid for the work. This will be incremental, with the AI leading you down a dead end path in a race to the literary bottom, but hey, at least you stayed current with the tech.
First it will be you using AI for “ideas”. Then it will be for writing your first draft. Soon after, it will be composing your entire novel and editing it ala Harper Collins. Hell, maybe that will get you a head pat to PenguinRandomSchuster that you’re a good little wannabe bot willing to compromise your storytelling integrity for a book deal.
Now ask yourself, why would any imprint that is printing thousands of AI books want yours?
Spines Publishing starting in 2026 will be using AI to print 8K books a year. 8K. Who in the fuck would want to oversaturate their market, flooding it with soulless creations just because the AI can chuck it out in fifteen seconds? Spines Publishing, for one. If they can do it, so can Amazon, who already has eight publishing imprints and is trying their hardest to kill the distribution market they have cornered by being the independent. AI would definitely be a nick in the publishing chain.
Now don’t forget who is training the AI – the “real writers” that actually did the work!
Look no further than the nine million books Mark Zuckerberg admitted to stealing, as in author’s IPs, to train his Meta LLM models without compensation or permission. He needs his ass whipped and the FBI should have drug him out by the ankles like they would any homeboy selling DVDs on a street corner for piracy. All he got was a slap on the wrist, which was followed by Pussy Grabber firing the head of the copyright office and taking the position interim.
Which leads me to the very important point – using AI means YOU CANNOT COPYRIGHT YOUR WORK!
That’s right, you have zero ownership over anything generated in any AI machine. That means you don’t own your work. Those ideas writers claim they need help getting, well, they will put you out of business with a quickness, with zero profit to show for your lack of effort. But hey, at least you can have the moral superiority that AI is equal to you using spellcheck, autocorrect, and the borrage of editing tools that have been built into word processing since the word processor days (though copyright on those was allowed because misspelling a word isn’t the same as the software writing all the words for you).
I don’t give two shits what writing organization is signing off on this – these people, who you can’t join unless you kiss ass and pay a premium for your lips caressing the dark parts of their cracks – are leading you down a path to your own demise. If they were truly representing the writers, they would be fighting to prohibit AI from replacing the writers, and fighting for the storytelling integrity of authors that do the work and have a career doing it. This has nothing to do with ease of access, but of the right to own what you make, good, bad, or ugly.
So, if you’re a so called writer and you just want to see your name on a book, stop fucking writing. This is the LITERARY BUSINESS, not a hobby or a vanity project. Quit undercutting the writers by embracing technology that is encouraging zero compensation or ownership of their work after they do the hard work from beginning to end. There are actual people that have chose this as a career, and the last thing they need is to be sideswiped by AI incels gatekeeping a technology that is going to not only price everyone out of the market, but remove human endeavor.
That is all.