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Subject: Re: Worldcon AI scandal
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 19:32:39 +0100
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On 18/05/2025 18:02, Blueshirt wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The whole world seems to be using Chap-GPT or similar AI-LLM
> algorithms to write things... even on RADW we have someone
> posting reviews of Doctor Who episodes that are artificially
> written by Chat-GPT/Google Gemini. I mean, how lame is that?
> 

Less lame than something written by a clueless politically motivated DEI 
hire encouraging children to commit terrorist acts and to torture and 
murder other people they don't agree with.

>> 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
>> participants, without their permission.  Several of the
>> commenters said that they are canceling their membership for
>> this reason.
>>
>> I recommend that anyone thinking of attending read that
>> statement and all of the responses.
>>
>> I will not be attending.
>>
>> I'm puzzled by the growing divide between the people who run
>> large cons and fandom in general.
> 
> Puzzled, but surely not surprised? Sometimes the uber-fans that
> run some cons think it's all about them and the rest of us are
> just plebs.

You mean fan hating woke perverts like Russell T Davies that think the 
show should all be about them.

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