PLOT TWIST
Hosted by Soman and Victoria · Soman Chainani and Victoria Aveyard
4.9from 518 ratings
- 70
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 518
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 53K
- YouTube views
About PLOT TWIST
Hosted by worldwide bestselling authors Victoria Aveyard (RED QUEEN series, REALM BREAKER series) & Soman Chainani (THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD & EVIL series), PLOT TWIST takes you behind the scenes of the biggest swings in our careers. Victoria’s TEMPEST, her very first novel for adults, an epic pirate fantasy… and Soman’s YOUNG WORLD, a red-hot young adult political thriller. Each week, we pull back the curtain of our creative process and give you our hot takes on thorny issues in publishing and entertainment, answer your mailbag questions, plus pitch plot twists we want to see in real life. New episodes every Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Soman Chainani and Victoria Aveyard
- Category
- arts · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Jun 2025
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 70 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
SEASON PREMIERE! Is There a Secret Plan to Get Rid of Authors?
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Re-Run: Is Writing Actually a Sport?
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
SPECIAL EPISODE! What Did We Learn from the TEMPEST Release?
Inside a recent episode
SEASON PREMIERE! Is There a Secret Plan to Get Rid of Authors?
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The filings also point to the hiring of Tarun Goganani in 2022 to lead OpenAI's efforts to improve the writing quality of its models. The documents show that Goganani stated that his research mission was to create a machine that would supplant human authors. Along those lines, the brief states that Goganani was aware of authors' complaints that the datasets are stolen and that the authors were losing work to AI-generated competition. Nevertheless, as the brief goes on, He did not find those complaints at all sympathetic and instead viewed them as acceptable economic disruption. He wrote that the world would soon experience the death of the reader as machines create slop for more machines. […]
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- YouTube views
- 53,229
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 130 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 388 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
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- Quality
- 26
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 85
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Soman and Victoria host the show. Published by Soman Chainani and Victoria Aveyard.
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