Gotta love SF writer John Scalzi - and I love many of the replies he got, too

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2026-04-01T16:06:25.853Z

I keep seeing the same lie peddled across the visual arts community too.

"Most professional artists are using it but too scared to admit it." Fucking no we are not; I have zero interest whatsoever in offloading and atrophying my hard-earned skills to plagiarism systems owned by grifters.

— Sma Shmo (@barcssarc.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T18:15:48.948Z

The ones peddling that are the ones using it. They just want it to become acceptable (socially and otherwise) to use slop machines so they can stop hiding that they use it.

— Rahvin (@rahvin.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T18:39:33.359Z

not a writer but a grad student, using AI for anything that I don’t know how to do deprives me of learning the action, and things im good at I don’t need an algorithm to do for me
It frustrates me that I have coworkers who disagree on the first point

— (@corgi-commodore.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T16:34:48.093Z

But what if instead of writing you want to generate plagiarized slop AND destroy the environment at the same time?

— Jim Metcalf (@thermochronic.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T16:34:24.613Z

If you can speak then you can write. Oversimplification maybe, I know they’re different. But not that different. Maybe if ppl ignore AI and make the effort to write, they will get better at writing. They call that “learning something”. Otherwise we become the talentless blobs from Wall-E.

— Paul Hurt (@paulhurt.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T17:13:42.076Z