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AI strikes again, this time through someone who was hired to do a very human job: editing fiction. What would you do if you found out someone you hired had been using AI while you paid them? This ...
Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel. The novel, titled "Darkhollow Academy : Year 2," penned by author Lena McDonald, ...
The Writers Guild of America is proposing to allow its authors to employ ChatGPT and other AI tools to write scripts for television and movies. There are a few use cases that the Guild proposed. A ...
Sixty years ago, South Bend, Indiana, offered America a preview of what was to come in the industrial heartland. The Christmas 1963 shuttering of the Studebaker automobile plant foreshadowed the ...
As a copyeditor before I became a writer, I can offer Helen Betya Rubinstein (“Notable & Quotable: Copyediting,” Feb. 1) the first rule of effective nonfiction writing: Never let the reader be ...
Steve Sorensen wrote for the Reader from 1976 off and on through 1997; he was the Reader's most adventurous writer. He walked and hiked the mountains and desert he wrote about. He covered the surfing ...
Smiley Anders, whose column appeared in this newspaper for many years, will be remembered as an artful scribe, leaving behind thousands of columns and several published collections of his work when he ...
A new phishing scam is trying to fool people into thinking it comes from Adobe, announcing a new version of PDF Reader/Writer. A new phishing scam is trying to fool people into thinking it comes from ...