thebookseller ig account saying NEWS: some editors uploading confidential manuscripts to ChatGPT to read quickly, agent claims

the guardian: I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche

the walrus bsky account: Authors are using AI. Publishers know it. And now, says publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, authors are being forced to lie about it. One cancelled horror novel didn’t just end a career—it exposed an industry-wide reckoning.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

BREAKING: Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 workers today, sources tell Bloomberg News. Story hitting shortly

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds.

In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

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why would you think that the machine that spits out the statistically most probable next word in a sentence would be at all useful in “generating new ideas”

every morning I wake up and immediately learn something that makes me go straight back to bed

One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:

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Hello! For the next two weeks I'm fundraising for The Trevor Project via Jingle Jam! The Trevor Project is amazing and provides crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people in America.

I've a schedule of my streams on my campaign page. And if you donate £35 you can receive a games collection as thanks!

i dont want to be in a fandom that critisizes the choices of fictional characters like they are human beings. i want to see THEORY and ANALYSIS and STORY STRUCTURE and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!! I WANT PARALLELS AND MOTIFS AND VISUAL CUES!!! They're not REAL they are TOOLS so stop acting like they are people who made bad choices and should be punished. of course they made bad choices!!! that shit is funny and cool to watch!!

Apparently my solution to this long and already complicated chapter is to add a whole new character the book hasn’t even seen before.

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"You need to cut toxic people out of your life, see through the bullshit, and start worrying about the things that really matter." -Shigeru Miyamoto On how to unlock Luigi in 'Super Mario Odyssey'

Dengeki Faminico Gamer Survey (2,900+ responses):

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2) Urban Myth Dissolution Center
3) Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
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5) Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

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Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

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Bandai Namco Europe apparently put up a YouTube Premiere video for "Tales of Series News" to debut on Aug 18 that accidentally showed a thumbnail for a Tales of Xillia remaster www.reddit.com/r/tales/comm...

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.

This seems kinda significant.

Just got off the phone with WA state human rights commission. They said even if you're not sure, go ahead and file the complaint.

So, anyone who had a book or game taken down that lives in Washington? I guess we have a next step.

Train information scroll just said ‘we wish you a comfo’ and I now want to make this a saying. I, too, wish everyone a comfo.