I just brought this up to a fellow book reader and she hadn’t thought about it before so I thought I’d make a discussion post about it to get everyone’s thoughts!

I’m reading a book right now that is giving me the vibes that AI was used during the writing process, I could be wrong (I see a lot of AI usage at my job to assist writing so that’s why I tend to notice) and I really struggle with authors using AI.

I feel that this turns their writing into not their own and the way that it makes the writing feel more robotic. Has anyone else noticed this? i’ve seen a lot of talk of authors using AI for their covers, but I haven’t seen a lot of talk about AI assistance with writing.

Hello folks!

I have been in a bit of a reading slump the past couple weeks or so. I've been busy, life has been busy, I'm sure many of y'all understand.

Anyhow, I am planning to try and break that slump with spooky season!! I'm gonna try reading Strange Pictures by Uketsu! I picked up a copy shortly before my slump started. Looking forward to diving into it!

What are y'all reading this fine spooky season?

I'm not exactly asking "how much/do you separate the art from the artist?", although I imagine that factors into this. But I'm genuinely curious for mostly practical reasons, not trying to be judgmental or any more uncomfortable than the topic may already be;

How do you handle marking books you've read in the past as Finished🏁 from writers you now know hold values that are in direct conflict with yours and/or have [allegedly] done horrific amounts of harm? And especially for those of you who have been doing this for an extended period of time; Do you approach that differently from books you logged/marked before you had that information? Do you go back and remove books for these reasons?

Because while I've privately tracked things off and on in the past with pen and paper or tools like Notion, I've only really just started to do so seriously through dedicated sites last year (starting with Letterboxd and Infinite Backlog, and now here on PB! 😊). And honestly, most of the time, it [the first part, at least]* doesn't really come up since I went into all of them focused on logging things going forward and condensing my to-be-read/watched/played lists.

But sometimes I'll convince myself I can add everything from my entire life if I just try hard enough (💀), and I'll start adding things as I remember them, as they come up on my feed, etc. And it becomes an entire struggle. 😐 Particularly when the artist is alive and/or has been so egregious, I never would have interacted with anything they made in the first place if I'd known. On the one hand, I feel disingenuous and dishonest not doing so, because "you marked this thing so why not that thing? you included these things in lists, but you won't even admit you interacted with this other thing? Would you care so much if it wasn't public?" On the other hand, it is public tho, and I worry the inclusion in and of itself is a promotion in a way.

So I do understand that even as dramatic as I am and thoughtful as I try to be, I'm ultimately and inevitably inconsistent! It's just that I still find myself rattled (like, literally reflexively jumping back from the screen and gaslighting myself about who/what it is XD) when I notice that someone has included a certain book in a quest or list, logged/favorited a movie from a certain director, streamed a certain game, whatever. And I find it difficult to reconcile all of this. 😅

EXCUSE YOU BITCH?? REAL PERSON?? TF YOU MEAN "She peered around for a real person." The janitor was right there. ARE YOU SERIOUS??? RACIST BITCH