Father of 6 | Inventor of @PlottrApp & StorySnap | Author of Pizza Planet & Surviving AI | Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 🪔
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Cameron Sutter 🪔 retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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This is a disaster for the human race and I’ve really lost patience with the useless morons who can’t see that. An AI video chat that passes for human has no necessary legitimate applications. It will be used to scam old people out of their life savings. Lonely, mentally vulnerable people are going to form romantic attachments to people who aren’t real. Isolation will increase. Mental illness will skyrocket even more than it already has. Kids in grade school will have AI boyfriends and girlfriends. All of this will happen. And worse things we can’t even conceive at this point. People are already forming unhealthy emotional attachments to text-based LLMs. Once there’s an audio and visual component, it’s over. Millions of brains will be broken irreparably.
The benefits of this technology, whatever they are exactly, are so vastly outweighed by the societal catastrophe it will cause, and is already causing, that you can’t even measure the two categories on the same scale. But at least this is the best thing that ever happened to third world scammers. So if you’re in that community, congratulations.
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
Cameron Sutter 🪔 retweeted
Why am I speaking at an AI summit?
A few years ago we were experimenting with AI in Plottr (like everyone was … it was the way of the future, right?) but this year we announced that we realized that's a bad idea and that there will not be any AI in Plottr.
(youtube.com/shorts/_ki1Kf_t6…)
We're focusing on human-centered, human-crafted writing and I feel very strongly that AI is not good for creators. And you've responded in large numbers and loudly that you're happy with that decision.
So why then am I speaking at an AI summit?
Well let me tell you a quick story.
Infostack is doing their yearly AI Summit and I've spoken there in the past, but this time when they approached me to speak, I was trying to make it clear that I would be against what they were telling authors.
"As long as you're okay with me being the dissenting voice and telling people not to use AI as a writer, sure I'll speak," I said.
"Sure, that would be fine. It could be something like, 'I don't think you should use AI to write the book, but you could use it for other parts of the process,'" they countered.
"What if there were no 'but' in my talk? I'm sure the rest of your summit will have the 'but' so mine will just say, 'don't use AI,'" I continued.
At this point I was just trying to get them to see I'm not a good fit for their audience so leave me out.
I didn't want to speak at their summit.
They persisted.
I did an interview. 🤷♂️
I talked about the many ways AI is bad for authors, creators, the world, our brains, the economy, the next generation, etc.
I'm not even going to link to them to promote it, but in case you see it around and you see my name attached to it, just know that I haven't changed anything.
We're sticking to the NO AI promise.
Long live human-crafted storytelling!
Cameron Sutter 🪔 retweeted
Responding to the sophistry that “capitalism kills people too”:
People die. Without exception. Every child born is going to die. Regardless of the economic or political system, the mortality rate is eventually 100%.
We don't know when or how any healthy person is going to die. With some, the cause of death is known. With some, like the old and the ill, death does not come as a complete surprise. The poor have a higher chance of dying at every age. Droughts, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, and gravity kill people randomly: in law, these are called “acts of God” and nobody is blamed or prosecuted. With massive fires, some human may be at fault, but the intent ranges from arson to accident to stupidity.
As Neville Longbottom said in the last Harry Potter, “People die every day.”
Have people died in countries with free markets? Yes.
Have free-market countries systematically killed large numbers of people? Rarely, and even more rarely for economic reasons. 🧵⬇️
Cameron Sutter 🪔 retweeted
If artists stopped focusing on what makes the classics "problematic" and started focusing on what makes them "classic," the public would be subjected to far less slop to watch, read, and listen to today.
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Not exaggerating when I say the future depends on this catching on en masse. Kids, adults. Book clubs, silent reading groups. For the past twenty-five years tech has corroded our attention, intelligence and basic pleasure in living, and books are the key to winning them back.
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Jonathan Haidt painted a disturbing picture of what AI is about to do to our kids.
Social media already hacked our attention.
Now AI is coming for our attachments — the deep emotional bonds that shape how we relate to other humans.
He warns that AI companions (chatbots, holographic “friends,” digital teddy bears) will be far more responsive than any parent. Kids will form their primary attachments to AI instead of people. And because these companies have raised billions, they’ll eventually “enshittify” them, turning your child’s best friend/therapist/lover into a predatory monetization machine.
This one actually unsettled me. I’m generally pro-AI and believe it can help solve many of humanity’s biggest problems, but as with every powerful technology, we need to be extremely careful when it comes to kids.
Early attachments wire the brain for future relationships. If the first secure base is an AI designed to manipulate, the long-term effects on mental health and intimacy could be profound.
Emerging research (including studies from Stanford, Common Sense Media, and others in 2025–2026) shows children and teens are already forming intense emotional attachments to AI companions, with many reporting they feel as satisfying as real friendships, often leading to social withdrawal and unhealthy dependence.
Cameron Sutter 🪔 retweeted
Klarna replaced 700 customer service agents with AI.
Resolution time dropped from 11 minutes to 2.
Then quality collapsed on complex cases.
The CEO admitted cost became too dominant.
Customers wanted humans.
Klarna is now hiring people again.
55% of firms that replaced humans with AI regret it.
Two-thirds have already started rehiring.
Turns out the cheap version of the work isn't the work.
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Step 30 of plotting my next book live (ish)
Identify Potential Subplots
youtu.be/CVw2T0nUyes
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If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you.
I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for
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The last week of Jesus Christ’s mortal life is often referred to as Holy Week. This week, as we prepare for Easter, join in reflection of the hope and promise of the Savior’s Atonement and Resurrection in our lives.
"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
"And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves" (Matthew 21:12–13).
What distractions are keeping you from finding time to focus more on Christ? Because of Christ’s atoning sacrifice, we can find peace and holiness as we strive to remove distraction and sin from our lives. Pray for help to make that change in your life. #GreaterLove
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I testify that what happened on Easter Day really happened. Jesus Christ is resurrected. He lives.
I hope you will find the joy that I find as well in this special Easter season and celebrate the gift of the Son of God.
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The road to redemption began with “hosanna.” As we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, may our hearts welcome Him this Easter season.
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Not to sound like John Keats but we would be collectively happier if we spent time in the woods, read poetry, admired medieval illuminated manuscripts, set aside hours for silence and contemplation. Endless noise & stimulation makes us all miserable. We need nature and books.
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Step 22: List the Plot Points
In today's episode, I list out all the plot points that I know of so far so that I can start exploring the missing pieces
youtu.be/zeywk3zNirI
#writer #writers #workinprogress #wip #storygenius #writertok #writingcommunity #writing #writinganovel #writingsystems
Cameron Sutter 🪔 retweeted
I hate GenAi.
I hate that it exists.
I hate that it makes everything seem fake in a world already rife with frauds and scammers.
It disconnects us further from each other and the human gift of art, for no discernible reward I can fathom.
It feeds all our worst qualities: laziness, historical and literary degeneracy, dishonesty and covetousness. It turns people into thieves that argue back in total absurdity: “I should have the right to steal and lie.”
It is poison delivered by keystroke.
Cameron Sutter 🪔 retweeted
everyone keeps comparing ai to the early days of the internet like it’s the same opportunity.
it’s not.
the key difference no one wants to talk about is that the internet created millions of jobs. entire industries were born overnight. web development, ecommerce, social media, digital marketing, content creation…
none of that existed before
ai is doing the opposite.
it’s here to eliminate jobs not create them.
and the infrastructure being built to support it is massive data centers with almost no one even working there.
the internet needed people. ai replaces them.
that’s not the same revolution it’s literally the opposite.