Sad news about Inkitt’s pivot to AI, but not surprising. My mom edits (used to edit?) for Galatea, which involved practically rewriting poorly written stories line by line to make them grammatical and readable. Now that work has completely dried up. There may be some work in the future for people to clean up AI-generated text for this platform, but one thing generative AI doesn’t do so much is make grammatical mistakes or ill-formed sentences. The stories she cleaned up may have been messy, but they were human. (They were also largely variations on werewolf erotica, in case anyone is wondering what secret storytelling formula Inkitt has found to keep people glued to their screens all that time.)
Great roundup as always @lynn!
Sad news about Inkitt’s pivot to AI, but not surprising. My mom edits (used to edit?) for Galatea, which involved practically rewriting poorly written stories line by line to make them grammatical and readable. Now that work has completely dried up. There may be some work in the future for people to clean up AI-generated text for this platform, but one thing generative AI doesn’t do so much is make grammatical mistakes or ill-formed sentences. The stories she cleaned up may have been messy, but they were human. (They were also largely variations on werewolf erotica, in case anyone is wondering what secret storytelling formula Inkitt has found to keep people glued to their screens all that time.)
Wattpad could be worth a look, though!