The Secret Of Why These Eleven Words Are Prominently Included When You Ask AI To Write A Creative Story

Latest AI mystery is that there are 11 specific nouns used frequently by LLMs when creating short stories. Why those words?
Opinion

The founding father of American literature, Charles Brockden Brown saw his nation's dark side

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

Filipino proverb of the day: 'A desperate person clings even to a knife' and the lesson it offers about survival, hardship and human nature

Why a desperate person 'clings to a knife' and why this Filipino proverb still speaks to the modern worldImagine standing at ...
Publishers Weekly

Authors Guild Looks at Why Author Incomes Are in Decline

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... A new study sponsored by the Authors Guild examining the causes of the decline in authors' earnings found that only 25% of print books and e ...
ZDNet

What e-reader tablets do published authors use? My survey found results beyond the Kindle

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
TechCrunch

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before ...
The Grio

Black authors write bestsellers. So why aren’t they on more lists? BLK Bestsellers founder Troy Johnson has answers

Troy Johnson has been fighting for Black books since before most people knew what a website was. In 1997, the Harlem-raised entrepreneur sat down to teach himself e-commerce and ended up building ...
Wall Street Journal

Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI

As a professional writer, Sarah Suzuki Harvard says she isn’t inclined toward overtly exuberant prose. But these days, she finds herself going rogue. “I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey ...
Orange County Register

Why ‘Shuggie Bain’ author Douglas Stuart rewrote new novel ‘John of John’

Douglas Stuart’s award-winning debut novel, “Shuggie Bain,” tells an autobiographical story of a young boy in Glasgow in the 1980s, whose father is gone and whose mother sinks into alcoholism. His ...
Publishers Weekly

Authors Guild Addresses Publishers’ AI Use

The Authors Guild has released a statement criticizing publishing professionals’ use of AI tools following a report first published in the Bookseller that some editors have been uploading authors’ ...
Forbes

Why Do Humans Cry? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Its True Purpose

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated ...
CNET

Why Use a Proxy Server? Benefits, Drawbacks and Common Use Cases

Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and moving. Prior to joining CNET, Joe led MyMove's moving coverage and reported on broadband policy, the digital divide, and ...