Longhand’s October sale offers AI buyers fresh human writing about public transport, furniture and a failed tap repair. One buyer asked for something that had not been written to please a buyer.
The writers are paid for their time and the uses they allow. Each piece comes with a first draft and a record of how it was made. Attest checks the claim that it was written without assistance. Consent Window records who may use it and when that permission will be reviewed.
Collectors at Patina buy records from before the end of 2022. Longhand sells new ones. Proof that a person wrote either kind does not establish that what they wrote is true.
First Draft, which buys rough work before revision, said some readers preferred a version with three unresolved endings. It would not say whether an essay with one finished ending should cost less.
Longhand offered the buyer a discussion with a writer, provided the discussion became part of the record.