The Society of Authors (UK) is helping launch this: an identifier for human-authored (i.e. non-AI) books: https://humanauthored.co.uk/

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@davidgerard Well yes, but that still does not fill me with confidence in their ability to fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@cstross @passenger @a @Npars01 “it sells cars to customers who think it means they can relax and watch a movie while they commute” leaving aside some deeper issues, we already have technologies that allow you to watch a movie on your commute. They’re just futuristic and sexy: trains and buses.

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@c0dec0dec0de @cstross @passenger @a @Npars01 That's basically why I'd want one. We took an annual road trip for a long time to visit my in-laws. It was about 12 hours driving each time. There is no equivalent bus or train because I'm in the US where you're lucky to have either within a hundred miles.

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@gooba42 underlying/deeper issues in previous toot was meant to avoid talking about suburbanization and car-culture making the proliferation of railways in the US both difficult and a political poison pill for a number of large donor industries, cars only being the most obvious.
@cstross @passenger @a @Npars01

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@c0dec0dec0de @a @Npars01 @cstross this needs to be embossed on an iron brand and stamped on the face of any techbro who reads sci-fi and says "wouldnt it be cool if we had..."

[clarablackink@writing.exchange]

@meganL @cstross AI thrives because everyone has been convinced that they must seek personal success and cut all costs to maximize personal profit.

Meanwhile, the type of work that meets that bar is rare and rarely of a quality that drives sales.

Creative folks need creative friends, this has always been true. Authors who want to save time and money in that arena are depriving themselves of a deeply enriching life. Nevermind thieving from others, they steal from themselves too.

[jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social]

@cstross@wandering.shop doesn’t seem to ditched the AI artwork

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@ASprinkleofSage @a @Npars01 @cstross seems a little wordy, maybe reduce to “poor reading comprehension” or “epically bad listener”

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@ASprinkleofSage @a @Npars01 @cstross I mean, “poor impulse control” also fits. Although I’ve gone off thinking about tattooing up all the billionaires with warning signs à la the werewolves in Joe Abercrombie’s The Devils: “Warning/Achtung/Caution”, “Do not trust”, “Liar”, “Manipulator”, “Abuser”…

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@c0dec0dec0de @a @Npars01 @cstross i'd go with "sci-fi is about people not gadgets you dickhead" but anyway more wordy = stronger deterrent...