We. Gapoz productions, are building here a new structure within our family and social site, specifically designed to help one another in our creative pursuits. Writing, including novels and scripts, videos, and music are all to be provided a means…
Welcome to the Writers Wrench
FADE IN: EXT. GARAGE – DAY The open door of the garage is a black hole in the blinding sun. The READER, talented, imaginative, determined but inexperienced, warily approaches. A huge storyboard consumes the center of the garage. The legs…
GAPOZ News & Announcements
1: The siege has begun! Grab your quill and parchment. 2: The Gauntlet has been thrown down! Meet the challenge.
CV – 11/6 Not How AI Feels
Harvard just admitted something a lot of people have been dancing around. Gary King and Steven Worthington run rapidPeer out of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Paid human reviewers. Double-blind. Constructive. The kind of reviews journal editors have called…
CV – 11/5 Just Because You Can
itch.io said the quiet part out loud this week. “Just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop,” the indie storefront posted, then the line that stuck: just because you can upload ten terabytes of poorly optimized AI-generated models doesn’t mean…
The Wrench Report – 11/4 Picture Comes With Sound
For a long time, AI video meant pretty pictures and then a second trip for the soundtrack. That split is closing. Two of the tools that matter most for short, directed clips now spit out picture, dialogue, and effects in…
CV – 11/4 Three Times, Openly
France just handed its biggest literary prize to a guy who put ChatGPT in the book on purpose. Tuesday night in Paris, Philippe Jaenada won the 2026 Prix Goncourt for L’Inconnue du quai de Javel (Flammarion)—a long dive into the…
CV – 11/3 Before the Score
Jane Friedman thinks the public AI-writing scandals are about to go quiet. That’s not because nobody’s using the tools. It’s because the screening is moving earlier in the process. In an Oct 30 essay, she argues that many of the…
CV – 11/2 Thirty-Two Versions
A French novelist named Sébastien Bailly has a book coming out from Robert Laffont in February. It’s called Les Touches fantômes, and he made it partly with AI, mostly Claude, he told La Provence. He’s not hiding it. Surprise. Here’s…
CV – 10/30 Not How AI Feels About It
The studio behind the Avengers movies went to Tokyo this week and said something I’ve been waiting for somebody with a big budget to say. At TIFFCOM, the content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival, AGBO’s Chris Brearton and…
The Wrench Report – 10/28 Your Song Wants a Video
You finished the track. Now it needs pictures, because Spotify, TikTok, and YouTube don’t care how good your chorus is if there’s nothing to look at. A year ago that meant hiring a video crew or giving up on the…
CV – 10/28 Sixty Bucks to Prove You’re Human
Here’s a new business model. You write a book. Then you pay somebody to prove you wrote it. ABC News in Australia just ran a long piece asking whether publishing there can survive AI. The industry is calling it a…
