In the spring of 2022, Google began reaching out to a series of writers, including award-winning science-fiction authors and New York Times bestsellers, for feedback on an experimental writing tool. Its focus on the humanities made Magenta a natural home for the study, which was dubbed the Wordcraft Writers Workshop. Lachance is an author and self-described "anti-gen-AI absolutist," and on August 6, she posted a link to the Wordcraft study on her Bluesky profile. Many bemoaned the participation of beloved authors in the Wordcraft study, while others threatened to boycott the works of all 13. Vajra Chandrasekera, a prolific science-fiction author and former fiction editor at Strange Horizons, wrote a lengthy Bluesky thread regarding the controversy.