Colleges ban generative AI in writing classes. My classmates use it anyway.

One BU student, who wished to remain anonymous, says she used AI for writing in general education classes, which she didn’t ...

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

Penn’s engineering school says it can’t count on federal research funding, so it’s trying to raise $200 million on its own ...
The Conversation

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...
Seattle Times

Author Stephen Graham Jones discusses his writing process

Some writers plot their stories like blueprints. Every beat is mapped, every theme carefully threaded, every sentence calibrated toward meaning. Stephen Graham Jones is not one of those writers. Or at ...
The Verge

Some writing advice from Project Hail Mary’s Andy Weir

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined ...
Harper's Bazaar

This Is How Joyce Carol Oates Writes a Book a Year

For our March Legacy issue, we highlighted the authors who have written the words that define this moment. Joyce Carol Oates doesn’t mince words. She is refreshingly direct in conversation—which is ...
The Atlantic

The Human Skill That Eludes AI

In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answers. It was creative.
USA Today

What's it like to write a bestselling book? We followed Lucy Score for a year to find out

Readers of Lucy Score’s new romance novel, “Mistakes Were Made,” will marvel at the cover and sprayed edges. They'll anticipate the love story that awaits them on the pages. But all the excitement in ...
CNN

Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...
New York Post

Scientists discover oldest form of writing in mysterious Stone Age engravings

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...
New Scientist

Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...