The Writing Room
Ash WrenWriter in progress and book-fluencer
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Why We Stopped Slaying Monsters
The monsters that go bump in the night have always intrigued humankind, but at some point we changed narratives. Vampires and werewolves used to be things that lurked in the dark. Dragons needed to be slain by knights to win the day or the...
A Judge Trusts Anthropic With Your Books More Than He Trusts a Librarian
Earlier this week I wrote about how AI company Anthropic was actively purchasing books, including rare and out of print materials, to then cut them apart in a destructive scanning effort aimed to train AI models. This topic has boomed this...
Claude Was Trained on Your Favorite Out-of-Print Book. Then the Book Got Shredded.
Last Monday, July 20 2026, a federal judge granted final approval to the $1.5 billion settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, a case where authors sued Anthropic for downloading millions of pirated books from Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate L...
"A Stranger Used ChatGPT to Write My Love Story and Emailed It to Me"
Imagine asking your partner a hypothetical— what would you do if you woke up five years in the past, but kept all your memories of the life you’d built together? He answers with something so specific, so him.
“I’d come and find you”
You p...
Breaking Book News: Hot Girls Read Trademark Surrendered by Allie Rose Co
If you’ve been following the “Hot Girls Read” trademark controversy there’s been a significant development in the last few hours.
Read the full breakdown here.
Allie Mitrovich of Allie Rose Co. posted a video statement today announcing th...
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