Category: Screed

  • Why I don’t use AI

    Let’s get this straight. The things that people call AI aren’t AI. They’re not intelligent. Large Language Models are spicy autocomplete. Every time your phone changes “fucking” to “ducking,” you’re getting a reminder that there is no intelligent life here. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I want to assure you that…

  • Cover art: Why are we doing this to ourselves (again?)

    I have an aunt who, gods bless her, has written over 140 romance novels. I have a memory dating to some time in the 1980’s of her holding up a genuine paperback copy of one of her romances. “I can’t believe this cover,” she said, pointing out the gray-haired man groping the heroine who, according…