Franklin Veaux's Journal

I am not, as a general principle, that much into recreational drugs.

A lot of folks who follow this blog know that I’m a writer, activist, photographer, amateur infosec researcher, traveller, and general all-around geek, among other things.

Image: minervastock on Depositphotos A short while back, I wrote an answer on Quora, the Q&A site, about how to spot romance scammers, the sourge of the internet.

“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove.

The world is filled with people who want to be writers.

I’ve been spending some time lately thinking about what I’m calling “glass mountain theory.”

Okay, so, this is not going to be a rant about how terrible AI art is, or how LLMs have stolen all our creative output (though I’m still waiting for thousands of dollars from the Anthropic settlement, given how Anthropic bootlegged several of my books to…

Image: Nina Hill Okay, hold onto your hat, because ima get a bit ranty.

I have stories in a new erotica anthology coming out in August.

A couple years or so ago, I was minding my business scrolling through Quora when I saw a spam post advertising a fake designer handbag site.

So it came to pass last month that I boarded a miraculous machine that can fly through the air, intending to spend a few weeks with my Talespinner working on the fifth draft of our novel Spin in seclusion.

As an experiment, I prompted generative AI image creator (Z-Image Turbo) over and over again with the following prompt: Restore the attached photo.

I’m back from a glorious, frightening, exhilirating, disastrous, calamitous, wonderful trip to Springfield, about which more later.

There’s an ad floating around on Facebook for…um, I’m not sure what it’s for.