AI Bros Want To Be Authors SO BAD

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]So, we got to talk about this chat GPT short story winning and how this Commonwealth Foundation creatives can't even tell AI slop from real stuff because they probably aren't even looking. They didn't even probably try to check. They just picked something and just decided to go with it. I swear to God, there needs to be like some kind of AI committee or art committee or something that can look through this and go, you know what, this is AI slop. We ain't going to we ain't we're not going to give anybody like that's like this a pass. Okay. So, the story comes from right here. It says the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize short list is here. Meet this year's cohort of 25 standard art writers selected from 7,86 entries. Five of these writers will be named the regional winners on May 13th before the overall winner is announced in late June. For now, meet our short story people, I guess. So, before I even tell you, which one of these do you think is the AI AI one? Which one do you think is it? I'll just tell you. It's this one. This guy's even using an AI generated photo and he gets his region was the Caribbean. So, this got posted actually today and was the serpent in the Grove by Jamir Nazir. It's a story set in rural Trinidad about a struggling farmer, a silenced young wife, and a grove that seems to remember what others tried to bury. Oh god, that even sounds AI, don't it? Awarded the Caribbean regional winner for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its own voice. Polished and confident with a melodic voice that lingers long after the final line. Jamir Nazir pros pulses with a voice of restraint and quiet authority. Okay, Chararma Taylor, did you just use AI on that? Jesus Christ. So, here is the story. I am not going to read all this, but what I am going to point out is that it is really well, I mean, I've already read all this, but I'm not I mean, I'm not going to read it on screen, but it has a lot of AISMs in it. like Sitta moved quietly as if sound were taxed.

[00:02:21]That's that's that's a way to that is something. And you know you know what other thing that I think is kind of funny when it comes to these like writings and stuff like that. They tend to use like AI loves to use the word something and then not describe it at all. It'll be like it did something in the something. Here's another one. They called her Zongi. Maybe it was a name.

[00:02:43]Maybe rain took a shape and decided to keep it. Okay. Okay. She had the kind of walking that made benches become men. I don't The metaphors are really really out there. Like listen to this. Hold strain G. I don't know if that's right.

[00:03:00]She said at last voice cracking hush is Marsha inside the shack. Vishnu stiffened. It wasn't the words but the way they split the day into before and after. He staggered out. Rum turning to poison on his tongue and went to the well. What about this made him do this?

[00:03:22]You know what I mean? Like something moved in him. He saw all of it in a knife second. A knife second. I'm going to finish this this writing and I swear to God I better not hear a single version of but in the damn comments. We already know it's written with AI. I don't want to hear. Oh, but I do that.

[00:03:46]Okay. No, we're not talking about you.

[00:03:48]Like, there's this whole paragraph here that doesn't I I'm not sure what's happening. He grabbed the vine and hauled. Marshall hauled. Sit a clawed stone. The well-hated to give back.

[00:04:00]What? The well hated to give back what fell. Waters jealous. They pulled up.

[00:04:07]They pulled until Marsha's shoulders were fire. until Vishnu's hands were bone. Sitta's elbow hit stone, then her hips, then one knee. She slid, found a purchase that hadn't been there a second ago, and disappeared after. She came over the lip, choking a sound the day almost refused. They lay on the hot ground, breath scraping, breath scraping sky. Marca sat up. She looked once at Sida's leg, already running itself purple, and stood. We go in clinic. She said, "Bring a towel." What? Fuck, dude.

[00:04:43]So, here's like this little part here.

[00:04:45]The the end. I'll read the little end.

[00:04:46]It says, "He doesn't lift. He only touches. The wood is warm from noon. He feels two heartbeats in it. A woman fighting stone, his own. He speaks not with saints or ghosts, but to a living listening. I go to keep it closed," he says. "I go keep it closed." "Why we whisper in daddy?" the child said. He looked at the stone gone to moss. Trees made witness. Sky still stingy. Stingy with light. Because this place knows things, he said. And when a place knows things, you talk soft so it can talk soft back. They stood together while the day moved on. While someone up the road joked into a pan of frying fish. A Lori coughed up a hill. A woman far off saying something too old for its words to matter. In the hot lush, the grove held its breath and it and released. In the hot hush, the grove held its breath and released it small and entire like a la like a last stitch drawn through a wound that had finally decided to close.

[00:05:54]Pass there soft. If you hear something, keep it. People will argue with you about what the earth can do. The grove knows. Sitanu Marsha knew Vishu his poor way learned the serpent of the grove was never only a snake. And then down here it says the grove remembered the house remembered. The boy remembered. And now at noon when the wind turns kind, the hum sounds less like hunger and more like earth clearing its throat to speak the names of those who came back. Bro, are we serious right now? Is this Is this real? Is this real? Okay. Okay. So, this is what I think. I think that this person Vishnu or not Vishnu, this person Jir, I believe that he wrote the original draft and then he put it in chat GPT and he said, "Hey, make this sound better, but don't change the dialogue. The dialogue is important."

[00:06:54]And then it generated that. And because he doesn't know that like the dialogue is bad like because the dialogue reads like someone who doesn't know English, but the text kind of says that he does.

[00:07:07]So it's probably or it's translating it and he didn't have anyone look it over, but I doubt that. This feels like he wrote it, needed it embellished, and sounded better. And this that it added things to the story that probably wasn't there because things like what burned there wasn't begging. It wasn't love. It was older, lower. A coal that hadn't died in the poor ash of their marriage.

[00:07:31]A blue flame saying plain I see you.

[00:07:34]Like there's so like that whole that whole those those four sentences I feel like aren't necessary. There's a lot of here that isn't necessary and I feel like maybe he needed to meet a certain criteria to be posted to be posted for this and he asked it to make more so it sounded interesting because I don't know how anyone would read this and think that this is somehow some riveting story because there's there's actually proof of this dude writing cuz look at this is a Trinidadian writer of East Indian heritage whose work explores the cultural intersections of the Caribbean and the India Diaspora, a prolific poet and author with books published and others forthcoming. He is particularly known for his love of poetry. His writing draws on landscapes, histories, and emotional beats, rhythms of Trinidad, where memory, heritage, and identity converge to shape voice and imagination. I hope readers walk away reflecting on the quiet consequences of choices we normalize beyond the story's tension. It is a deeper moral examination that I hope lingers. No, he didn't fucking write that. No, he didn't. His image also comes up as chat GPT. Well, as AI generated cuz I don't I just don't This just doesn't feel like something like if someone said you have to send a picture in. This is something that I feel somebody would generate because when you look at all the other pictures, this one doesn't fit. Like why would you send this picture as your picture? You look completely unfriendly.

[00:09:02]Like you're not able like you're just not This is not a picture I would send.

[00:09:07]And I mean we talked about pang. It did 100% AI generated. The grove hums at noon. Okay. In fact, someone used Grammarly and it says possible AI text generated. 47 parts of your text contain patterns that resemble AI text. These can occur in your writing. If you use generative AI, you can cite it. And it just shows Vishnu was 25 wearing the face of 50.

[00:09:35]Hard living lays itself on a man like wet sacking. It never asks perm. Oh god.

[00:09:40]It ne that's also another one. Asking permission. Here's one of his poems here. I love you beyond the ruins myself. And it goes Jir Nazir copy 2025. I loved you when my life was rubble when even God turned his face away. When you came to me like a wound that glowed, a lantern burning in the light of shadows. The scars you touched did not fade. They learn to shine. If the world ends, I will still find you.

[00:10:06]For you, my beloved, I carry a universe beneath my ribs. I mean, I I don't really believe that this guy who wrote that if he wrote that wrote that other piece. Like, people here are saying, even if it was an AI, it's terrible.

[00:10:19]Every single sentence is a gumbo of tortured metaphors and simileies. It's very painful to read. It's embarrassing.

[00:10:25]Please find jurors and readers better equipped that recognize AI writing.

[00:10:30]Snake in the grass written by AI. taking the piss now. Is this even a real person? Someone said that they thought it was probably a white man pretending to be brown, pretending to be Indian.

[00:10:40]They're just Why are you mad? Oh, okay.

[00:10:44]Okay, okay. And no one's going to take you seriously. Now, the award bait turd world slap is going to be written by robots, but the only reason to award those stories was cuz you felt bad for the writer. Confidence and restraint.

[00:10:57]Talk about running the gamut. Oh my god.

[00:11:00]It means something very important. You are okay with AI bullshit as long as it's woke. Is Jamir Nazir the name Chbt identifies with now? Oh god. Oh god.

[00:11:11]Somebody has a little thing here. The first two paragraphs of this obviously AI generated story contain the character Vishnu Muhammad and a nomally Trinidadian woman saying the grove ain't forget on top of a few facially incoherent metaphors. Racist judges going well that's just posit. Oh god.

[00:11:31]I'm not going to say this out loud, but I think you guys should just pause and maybe read that for a second cuz that's that's really funny to me. Oh, he has his Oh, I see what he did. So, he Oh, that's so weird. He asked AI to make an image for him and that's what he sent as his image. and he writes his own posts, but I think that he asks Chachi PT to fix them because they're really I don't know. He's This dude's weird. Like, doesn't it feel like a joke that that the thing is called Snake in the Grass?

[00:12:07]Doesn't it doesn't it feel like a joke?

[00:12:09]If you guys are new here, please please subscribe, like, and hype the video so it can get out in the algorithm a little bit and comment and say your favorite food, bro. Do that. Also go over my Patreon because I like to put out my art stuff in full res and I also like to put out my writing if you guys are interested in my fantasy world stuff. So go over there, do it. So people are also saying here that it takes a lot of cultural ignorance to believe that a hero would be named Vishnu Muhammad and that would be highly offensive in two religious traditions. A lot of this comes from I think that people who don't want to craft want the clout. They want the glory. They want all that stuff that comes with people who tried. They want to infiltrate even literary spaces.

[00:12:59]They've already infiltrated the artist spaces and we were like we don't want them. And authors and poets say we don't want you guys here. They don't want to.

[00:13:07]The thing is is they don't want to come to their own spaces there. If there is an AI poetry contest, why aren't they go doing that there? Why do you guys have to infiltrate into spaces where you're not wanted? And then why do why is it always with these contests that literally have nobody reading if any of the entries are AI? It's like these people who host these competitions are asleep at the wheel or they're lowering their standards to where they're not even reading it. They're skimming it or at or at worse or at worse they're putting it in AI and saying which one is the best one because there's a there's an issue on Tik Tok where like I haven't even talked about it but I have a belief this is this is one of these beliefs one of these beliefs that because of the Tik Tokation of everything that there's too many content creators and they they want their day in the sun right and I believe possibly some of the Book talkers who don't like reading and people who also don't like reading, they're just going into AI and asking the AI to skim it so they can have a memory of it so they can talk about because they want to be in on the conversation. This is wanting to be in on applying to a literary contest and getting an award. I feel like this dude's taking the piss, but this is a bigger people don't want to read shit.

[00:14:30]People just don't want to read shit.

[00:14:32]They'd rather just like I honestly believe that most people who don't read shit and don't look at shit, they're probably addicted to Tik Tok. And I'm not saying you can't like Tik Tok because I love me some good Tik Toks, man. But if your attention span is like a goldfish, you take a wrap around the bowl and you forget in 30 seconds, like AI ain't going to help you. It's not going to help you be a better writer.

[00:14:51]It's not going to help you be a better artist. Maybe it can do other things, but creatively it's just like in my last video I said the only people who can really make make do with AI are people who already know what they're doing, not people who don't know what they're doing. This is a case of another person who doesn't know what they're doing.

[00:15:12]They don't have the skills and they think that they can just apply to the contest because they just want their time in the sun. I mean, I just talked about Coral Hart producing 200 freaking AI novels a year and they're all AI generated with the right tropes and and this is just one of them. This is just one of them with this guy. A rural struggle, a silenced woman, like nature as memory. Like what the what? Can you just fucking chill? Can you just chill with that shit? And because like readers and publishers are going to start assuming like this is good work, they'll just accept shit work because they're already doing it in publishers.

[00:15:53]Publishers aren't even looking for people who write stories anymore.

[00:15:56]They're looking for what got popular and giving those people publishing deals. So nobody want like it the old I feel like the old world of doing things where you can hone a craft is I don't I don't know how I feel about it. I feel like honing a craft is is great and people are all like, "Oh, well, the the the slop will stay below and the humans will will prevail over it because it's great writing." That is literally what every AI bro says. Every single one of them.

[00:16:26]They say, "If it's really amazing, it'll outshine everyone." That's not how it works. When you when when someone like Coral Hart or this dude is flooding contests and like book genres and making 200 books or 200 poems a year and filling everything with slots, the like I did a I did a what was it? I did a calculation that like for every 16 things that you interact with that is like a book or a picture or whatever, one one out of those 16 is a real person. So you're like you're more likely to interact with AI slop than you are a real person. And I think that it is totally fine to keep calling out AI slop as it is until something is done where you know people don't like that that panagram thing exists. But there has to be something there has to be something that people can look at and go yes this is AI content and stop people from lying about it because it's a deceptive practice. I rarely see anything that's AI that is not a deceptive practice unless it has to do with math or has to do with medical or something with the environment.

[00:17:40]Sometimes if it if it's not AI focused in the sciences, then it's probably being deceiving and the people hosting it or using it are deceiving. AI companies are deceiving. It's just just very deceptive, very manipulative. So, I guess that's it for me. Tell me what you guys think. Do you guys think that it read AI to you? I mean, I think I think you guys if you guys want to I mean, it's kind of a funny read, so I think you guys should go look over it. But I'll see you guys in the next one.

[00:18:09]Peace.