This is so wholesome. On the last ever Carol Burnett Show, Tim Conway surprised Carol with her idol, Jimmy Stewart. Her reaction transforms her into a kid again.

You know that feeling when someone says something you're thinking but articulates it better than you ever could?

Thanks, everybody. I think we're good. Fade In users are the most amazing, out of all the users. I'd pick you guys in a fight any day. Anyway, go on and Check For Updates.

The Terrence Malick of screenwriting software.

Don't steal others' creative work. Don't use technology that is based on stealing others' creative work. This is actually very straightforward.

2010: "National novel writing month is fun chance for aspiring authors to get a creative boost and write their dream story! Powered by imagination!" 2024: "It is classist to criticize anyone who pays a monthly subscription to make an app plagiarize other people's writing."

You know we're cooked as a culture when an event called something like, "Make A Full Painting By Yourself Week" releases a manifesto about why painting by yourself is actually a social ill that must be addressed

For those who might be thinking, okay, well it's not like they're actually hawking a paid "AI" writing tool or anything like that: they're actually hawking a paid "AI" writing tool.

At some point creative companies and organizations are going to have to choose between supporting creators or selling out those same creators for a short-term market of others who merely want to claim to have created.

a good reason not to eat human brains

Endlessly fascinating and depressing to me that, to those who can't or won't do it, creative *work* has no value. The creative *output* has some, limited, how-cheaply-can-I-get-it worth to them, but the actual work to make it? Nope.

"We can't run our business without breaking the law, but on the other hand we're making everything worse for everybody."

Delete your account

Billions and billions spent, immeasurable amounts of copyright violation, swelling electrical grid demands, destruction of the useful open internet...all so it can write a stilted email for you, provide incorrect answers, or make ugly art. Why worry if they can stay in business?

This was 100% AI bot scraping, this is becoming an unbelievably common occurrence. Not only are these companies stealing our work, which costs us, but they're driving up everyone's server bills as well. We're literally paying for them to take our work. This needs to be illegal.

The rest of us are doing something very, very wrong.