lina

i prefer an identity that does not rely on what i purchase or what i look like. i prefer an effortless sense of being in the world. yet, so much is calculated and constructed to send a message. so much presentation & performance. the urge to symbolize everything is tacky af .

"Now Granta, or more precisely the Commonwealth Prize ecosystem with which it is associated, appears to have been fooled by AI-generated prose. The issue is not whether detection software can “prove” machine authorship. The issue is aesthetic. Several readers and editors apparently encountered prose displaying classic LLM characteristics—semantic over-resolution at sentence level, lyrical excess without governing pressure, figurative autonomy detached from structural necessity—and accepted these peculiarities as “voice.”"

i want to go on record there's a non-zero chance that the granta thing was written by Nazir as a double mockery of AI and MFA postcolonial prose; the move here would be to claim that it's a study of this collapse between aggregate style in the dying industry and LLMs - just sayin

We tested every Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner since 2012. We found three more AI-generated stories -- two among the 2026 winners, as well as the 2025 overall winner.

My least woke opinion is that I think one of Hollywood’s only ethical use cases for AI is the idea of never having to use child actors again, if AI was just a huge Machine that De Ages Stand-Ins So Kids Don’t Have to Act and wasn’t used for anything else I’d be like ok cool