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← The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.
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Read this korrent: The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.
The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.
Last stated 3 months ago
9 Aug 2026
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Brad Feld — holds since 2026-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Lack of transparency about AI use is damaging trust between writers and the institutions they work with. — tap to centre the map on it
Lack of transparency about AI use is damaging trust between writers and the institutions they work with.
Last stated 4 months ago
8 Jul 2026
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Karen Lord — holds since 2026-07-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Readers would rather read a person's "bad" writing than polished AI writing, because even one AI-written sentence is easy to spot. — tap to centre the map on it
Readers would rather read a person's "bad" writing than polished AI writing, because even one AI-written sentence is easy to spot.
Last stated 5 days ago
31 Oct 2026
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Steve Yegge — holds since 2026-10-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If a press or prize does not want AI-written stories, writers should respect that. — tap to centre the map on it
If a press or prize does not want AI-written stories, writers should respect that.
Last stated 4 months ago
8 Jul 2026
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Karen Lord — holds since 2026-07-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: No creative work should ever be used by AI without its maker's permission; doing it is no different from stealing. — tap to centre the map on it
No creative work should ever be used by AI without its maker's permission; doing it is no different from stealing.
Last stated 8 months ago
11 Mar 2026
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Jeff Kaplan — holds since 2026-03-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is a risk that reading will be devalued due to low-quality AI-generated text. — tap to centre the map on it
There is a risk that reading will be devalued due to low-quality AI-generated text.
Last stated a month ago
26 Sept 2026
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Guillermo Rauch — holds since 2026-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Work written with AI should never be eligible for awards. — tap to centre the map on it
Work written with AI should never be eligible for awards.
Last stated 11 months ago
19 Dec 2025
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Mary Robinette Kowal — holds since 2025-12-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Trying to avoid AI-writing tells as a human writer is pointless, since readers who fixate on them ignore substance anyway. — tap to centre the map on it
Trying to avoid AI-writing tells as a human writer is pointless, since readers who fixate on them ignore substance anyway.
Last stated 5 months ago
28 May 2026
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Jacob Falkovich — holds since 2026-05-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Writing is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking. — tap to centre the map on it
Writing is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking.
Last stated 3 months ago
12 Aug 2026
CM
Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benefit lies in the giver's intention, not in the thing given — tap to centre the map on it
A benefit lies in the giver's intention, not in the thing given
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Seneca — holds since c. 56–62 CE — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that has become bored with the mechanics of running a business cannot succeed, regardless of its strategic success. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that has become bored with the mechanics of running a business cannot succeed, regardless of its strategic success.
Last stated 2 months ago
20 Sept 2026
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Bryan Cantrill — holds since 2026-09-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Sept 2024
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Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Slop is an executable idea that is a feature suggestion wrapped in code. — tap to centre the map on it
Slop is an executable idea that is a feature suggestion wrapped in code.
Last stated a month ago
25 Sept 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-09-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Last stated 10 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A growing fraction of social media is AI slop influencers being replied to by bots — an echo of an echo of an echo. — tap to centre the map on it
A growing fraction of social media is AI slop influencers being replied to by bots — an echo of an echo of an echo.
Last stated 2 months ago
23 Aug 2026
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François Chollet — holds since 2026-08-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A chatbot's voice should not replace a thinking human voice where truth matters — tap to centre the map on it
A chatbot's voice should not replace a thinking human voice where truth matters
Last stated 3 years ago
8 Jul 2023
DH
Douglas Hofstadter — holds since 2023-07-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A developer cannot be productive and competitive today without using AI — tap to centre the map on it
A developer cannot be productive and competitive today without using AI
Last stated 2 weeks ago
19 Oct 2026
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Troy Hunt — holds since 2026-10-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A job that consists of approving AI output has no flow channel at all, because the challenge has been exported to the machine and only the vigilance remains. — tap to centre the map on it
A job that consists of approving AI output has no flow channel at all, because the challenge has been exported to the machine and only the vigilance remains.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Oct 2026
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Jakob Nielsen — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
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