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From: The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM>
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Subject: Re: Worldcon AI scandal
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 14:35:49 +0100
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On 17/05/2025 13:44, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <1009ppp$bsqh$1@dont-email.me>,
> Daniel70  <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
>> On 17/05/2025 9:05 am, The True Doctor wrote:
>>> On 16/05/2025 22:26, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>>> According to
>>>> https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
>>>> the upcoming Worldcon has used ChatGPT to vet its program participants.
>>>>
>>>> I'm encouraged by the fact that there were more than a hundred
>>>> responses to that statement, and every one of them was negative.  Some
>>>> because ChatGPT is infamous for "hallucinating," i.e. making stuff up
>>>> out of thin air.  And some because ChatGPT was programmed using the
>>>> works of professional writers, incuding would-be Worldcon program
>>>
>>> Professional writers? You mean the woke ones that write like uneducated
>>> children?
>>>
>>> No one needs any writer's permission to read their work, not even
>>> ChatGPT. What the creators of ChatGPT should have done is paid the
>>> copyright holders to buy the texts to begin with at the current market
>>> price, about $2-$12 per eBook, rather than downloading them from sites
>>> PirateBay for nothing in order to train their LLM. Of course the woke
>>> perverts want more than the cover price for ChatGPT to read their works
>>> and that is totally unjustifiable. You can't charge readers a different
>>> price to buy your work depending on who they are.
>>
>> Except a (human) reader might read the story a very few times whereas
>> ChatGPT might use the work over and over and over again.
> 
> Every used ChatGPT Dannyboy?
> 

We all know that's what you use to write your reviews for you.

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