AI-Generated Stories, Books, and More
Instances of AI-generated fiction are now all too common.In March of 2026, the horror novel Shy Girl was pulled from publication after the author was suspected of using AI to help her write it.
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Peter Biles
AI Got Booed Off the Stage
Graduating seniors don't all approve of the technology's growing presence in societyMany graduating students may just want a simpler life where they can work, afford to live, and enter life-giving relationships.
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Does Mental Health Awareness Actually Help People?
A new study and a forthcoming book argue that hyperawareness of mental health and illness can harm more than helpMatthew Loftus has a new book coming out on this topic later in 2026 called Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond.
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AI is Forcing the Return of Writing by Hand in the Classroom
Sometimes, the old ways are still the best waysSkipping the process of working through problems and arguments will end up ensuring students learn less, not more.
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College Closures Are Getting More Common
What’s the state of higher education halfway through the 2020s?If the demographic problem fails to get any better in the coming years, then it seems clear that higher education will continue to see these kinds of financial challenges.
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Longform Nonfiction in Decline?
We still need to read long books about complicated topicsPerhaps it isn’t coincidental that this kind of longform writing is having trouble at the same time that the online news cycle gets ever more ephemeral.
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Meta Retreats from the Metaverse
While Meta is scaling back on the metaverse, it is reportedly switching focus to artificial intelligence.The ambitious project never paid its expected dividends. Consumers simply weren’t as interested in these VR headsets as Zuckerberg thought they would be.
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What is Meta Up To? Big Tech Turns to AI Investment
The social media giant bought a social media site made up of bots.Maybe AI will force us to reckon with the reality of the soul, which I also wager that no computer system can generate.
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Are Young People Getting Tired of AI?
A new article suggests teens are not universally excited about the blossoming technologyJulie Jargon wrote an interesting piece for The Wall Street Journal about teen attitudes towards AI and found that their view of it isn’t so optimistic as many might assume.
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Washington Post Fires Hundreds of Journalists
The Post has struggled in recent years and even saw a major dip in subscriptions back in 2024Owner Jeff Bezos has not yet succeeded in making the company financially viable in a time when so much media and journalism is now being independently created.
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The Decline of K-12 Literacy and What Might Help
An emphasis on storytelling might at least partially serve as a solution in K-12.High school students struggle in places afflicted with poverty, family breakdown, and other social woes. However, it doesn’t necessarily follow that students from wealthier regions are demonstrating academic excellence.
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Grok’s Deepfake Capacities Modified Following Pushback
Deepfakes and AI-generated content are only becoming more prevalent on sites like X.Grok, X’s AI program, came under fire when its users began creating explicit images and videos of real people. AI-generated deepfakes began to abound until finally, X took action to modify the AI bot’s capabilities. According to X’s Safety account: We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis. This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers. Additionally, image creation and the ability to edit images via the Grok account on the X platform are now only available to paid subscribers. This adds an extra layer of protection by helping to ensure that individuals who attempt to abuse the Grok account to violate Read More ›
In 2026, Real Artistry Will Help Brands and Businesses
2025 was AI's big year. Will 2026 follow suit, or will the scales start to balance?Enter Porsche, the car company, and it’s advertisement, contrasting with Coca-Cola, shows the time-tested beauties of hand-drawn and CGI animation.
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AI Data Centers Are Using Water, and Lots of It
Will studies like this spark a new kind of pushback in the coming year?The study has arrived on the heels of Time Magazine’s decision to elect a number of AI company CEOs as its annual “Person of the Year.”
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AI Developers Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
The decision drew a lot of criticism.On the cover of the magazine issue, tech giants including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are pictured sitting on a construction beam.
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New ChatGPT Ads Assume People Can’t Think for Themselves
ChatGPT wants to do it all for you.This sort of thinking assumes that modern people are no longer intelligent enough to do the things that former generations easily managed.
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How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones
What is all of this digital content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone?For those familiar with the novel Brave New World, this distracted, dopamine-addled brand of a society was all but predicted almost a century ago.
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New Allegations Claim Meta Dismissed Risks to Children
New complaints, same story: Meta cares more about business growth than protecting kidsThis new litany of complaints feels like it will be a lot tougher for the tech behemoth to successfully battle.
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What Qualifies as a Book Ban?
If a novel has sold millions of copies and can be easily bought in almost any bookstore, how is it "banned"?Many people on social media pushed back against the claim that Atwood’s famous, bestselling book has in any way been “banned.”
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Tech Addiction is Reaching a Frightening New Level
Young people are spending endless time online seeking drug-like states of mindKolitz wraps up his article by stressing how this new type of addiction isn’t so far removed from the more culturally accepted forms of mindless scrolling.
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