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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Worldcon AI scandal
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 23:14:29 +1000
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On 18/05/2025 12:29 am, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <100a3bm$dk9b$5@dont-email.me>,
> The True Doctor  <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> On 17/05/2025 13:44, The Doctor wrote:
>>> In article <1009ppp$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.
> 
> :-)

Yes, Binky, that, seemingly, is YOUR bestest Buddy, Aggy, having a go at 
YOUR use of ChatGPT, Binky.
-- 
Daniel70