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Nick Harkaway

(Well, *might* be a problem, depending on what amounts to a sniff test dressed in formality. Which isn’t to say it’s a bad standard.) Anyway, that’s a bit of a tangent. I wish we had more detail on the core story here. One question: how is the author supposed to “substantiate” non-use of AI?

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Nick Harkaway

I’m probably further down that road than most - I’ve basically put together a non-Microsoft, non-Apple, non-Google software environment to write my next book in, in part so I can say clearly that I’ve routed around AI, and I couldn’t *prove* non-use.

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jacques124

I did that by using Linux. All free software. Lots of support for writers.

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Nick Harkaway

Indeed. I decided I wanted the somewhat unusual Qubes distro, which is an adventure in itself. But while this allows us to avoid AI, it doesn’t allow us to *prove* that we’re not using it. That is borderline impossible.

Aliette de Bodard

Oooh can you share what you used?

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Chelsea G. Summers

Yes please

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Nick Harkaway

Cheap mini pc from eBay plus Linux Qubes (super-secure, supposedly finicky, though I rather like it - but other distros would do) plus Zettlr and LibreOffice. Today’s task: export Ulysses docs to Zettlr, set up backup and syncing.

Ian McQue

Write your manuscript with a quill pen on hand made parchment paper

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Sarah Cole

I hope my fountain pens and notebooks will be sufficiently antiquated? I don't think I've got enough spare time to get into making paper, and I already have a shelf of blank notebooks to work through...

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Nick Harkaway

I seriously considered an IBM Selectric. I learned to type on one of those; how hard could it be? (Very. Total pain in the arse, no backups, manual page numbering, physical cut n paste…)

Nick Harkaway

I’m not about to document my own keystrokes or record my work sessions with a video camera, and even if I did, that wouldn’t get it done.

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Nick Harkaway

Putting the burden of proof on the other side is equally hopeless. AI detectors don’t work to a certainty. It’s a recursive mess. Sidebar: AI models rank their own output higher than that of other models and humans. (That‘s tautologous, surely, if not intuitive.) arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00462

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