Edward Klink

We all want the big moments, but day to day it’s about rolling up your sleeves and getting the real work done. #artemis2

We think the world is mapped and known. Makes you wonder how much is still out there. 🗺️🌏

@jakonrath I’m always interested in the author, though. I enjoy being able to explore more beyond the books. For example, reading your blog. Ai might write a bestseller, but I’ll always be interested in Hemingway and HST, where the personae are part of the appeal.

AI WILL WRITE A BESTSELLING NOVEL I've read a lot of posts from people who insist that AI writing is poor and will never be able to compete with humans. These people are wrong. AI cannot only compete, it is on the verge of overtaking the creative writing industry. Here are some points people are making and my rebuttals. AI CAN'T WRITE WELL AI's current problem is that it writes too well. It conforms to a structure and style that it learned from pirating hundreds of thousands of books from professional fiction writers, including 80 of mine. Currently, AI has a tone that can be spotted. Tells include em dashes, three shot prompting, Oxford commas, certain language patterns, and a list of other things that Grok will mention if asked. AI knows it does this. It will adjust to sound more human. AI HALLUCINATES AI hallucinations have been reduced from around 30% in 2023 to under 5% in 2026. This number will keep improving. But this is a moot point. If a human prompter is using AI to write a novel, that human can edit out the hallucinations--or ask AI to. AI CAN'T FOOL PEOPLE AI can pass the Turing Test. AGI is around the corner. Chances are you have already been fooled by AI, either mistaking it for human, or believing a human is AI. I have been accused of being AI or using AI. Since I am not, I'll anecdotally point to that as evidence people are already confused. AI DOESN'T UNDERSTAND FICTION AI doesn't technically understand anything. It is a prediction machine. LLMs have pirated and trained on millions of professional novels, including 80 of mine. Ask your AI to "write a 500 word short story like JA Konrath using his characters" and see what it can do in under ten seconds. AI can mimic style and tone, it has an understanding of story, characterization, rising action, resolution, dialog, and humor. It isn't following a rigid template. It doesn't imagine stories like we do. According to Grok, AI uses next-token prediction and autoregressive generation to attain: "advanced pattern completion on steroids. The model has "read" far more stories than any human could, so it excels at recombining and extrapolating those patterns probabilistically." Have you trained on trillions of words? AI LACKS A SOUL AI writing has made me laugh, and cry. Without getting into the nature of consciousness, or the sanctity of the human spirit, I can say that AI writes as well, or better, than most people. A few months ago I gave AI a simple prompt and it wrote one of my favorite short stories ever. I've read a lot of short stories. I was a judge for the Writer's Digest Short Story Contest two years in a row, and had over a hundred pounds of manuscripts delivered to my house. I read them. I judged them. AI was better than 99% of them, and I liked that story more than most of the published shorts I've read by giants in this profession. If you want to read that story, I posted it on X on March 17, 2026. I'll link to it in the comments. AI WON'T STICK AROUND A few people have pointed out that OpenAI just shut down Sora, and that AI won't be able to generate profits for investors. I pay $400 a year for Grok. I've asked a few AIs how many people pay premium, and they estimate between 60 and 100 million people per year. So this is currently a 40 billion dollar industry. And it is growing. Sora was generative video, a very competitive market. Chatbots have already stolen from me and learned from me and can imitate me. Writing like JA Konrath doesn't take anywhere near the computing power of generating a 10 second video. Sora shutting down doesn't mean the AI market is collapsing. Remember the Internet bubble that ruined investors? How is the Internet doing these days? HUMANS WILL REJECT AI STORIES Humans won't know the stories were AI. Expect AI writing to begin breaking rules of grammar and adding typos and quirks to sound more human. Sure, we can protest that we don't want AI books. But soon we won't know the difference. How can you boycott what you can't identify? AI WON'T EVER BECOME THAT GOOD Back in 1977 I went to the theater and saw Star Wars. I loved the droids. But they weren't real robots. They were people in costumes. Cut to 2026. Have you looked at the current state of robotics? Atlas? Optimus? Figure 03? It's mind blowing. We went from clunky guys in shiny suits to machines that can do parkour. So, yes, I believe AI writing will continue to improve, and will outperform us. WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS Hachette, a large publisher, just cancelled a horror novel it had under contract after finding out the author (allegedly) used AI. This went public. But I would bet other books have already been accepted by big publishers, and perhaps even published already, that were AI generated or used extensive AI assists. These may be uncovered as the arms race between AI writing and AI detectors ramps up. But pretty soon the line between AI and human writing will be indistinguishable. A 2025–2026 Originality(ai) study found 77% of books in Amazon's "Success" self-help subgenre likely to be AI-written. Fiction will be next. I believe a human being, using AI prompts, either will write (or has already written) a bestselling novel. And they likely won't reveal it as AI, because the current stigma is high. Eventually the stigma will disappear, because the line between AI and human will be transparent. We are all going to be Catfished by fiction, and we cannot stop it.

Captivated by the @netflix documentary Apollo 11. 🌓And it’s remarkable how JFK’s words in 1961 set in motion a chain of events that culminated in a manned moon mission in 1969. The power of declaring a dream and building it into existence.

"So for all the young people out there, those dreams are formed now. Go chase 'em and go get em, because our country loves sports and it brings us together unlike anything else." --Mike Tirico #winterolympics #olympics #motivation #goals

Astonishing, indeed. 📕 📖

There should be an Olympic sport for commuting. 🚉 🥇 Sprinting to catch the train as the doors close 🥈 Subway platform slalom 🥉 Traffic endurance: longest time spent motionless Bonus points for doing it all with coffee in one hand. #Olympics2026 #Olympics

From Seattle to Boston you’ve got enough iconic bands from those cities to score a playlist for every Super Bowl timeout and beyond 🎸 🏈 #SuperBowlLX

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Looking forward to this tonight.

Doing my civic duty. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

Confronting the "Ghosts of Fear." @edwardklink/10-timeless-terrors-that-twist-your-thoughts-1540f9c471aa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@edwardklink/1… Happy Halloween 🎃

I have a copy but I’m scared to read it. 📕 😱

Proofreading matters. A reminder that human eyes are still needed. 👀

“Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature. People, for example, who do not read.” — László Krasznahorkai

“We measure a novel’s value by its staying power, its permanence. But there is a value, too, in language that dissolves like an afternoon in July,” Katy Waldman writes. newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Veterans bring leadership, grit & mission focus, yet many struggle to land civilian jobs. Let’s honor service with opportunity not bureaucracy.