Sam Missingham

The largest, most technologically advanced companies in the world NEED quality content to feed their machines. They have also explicitly said they'd like to crush IP laws. And, given what I've just said about Amazon. Do you think big 5 publishers are going to come out on top?

Not the main point here, BUT, I have said before that many of these prestige prizes are steeped in whiteness and are Western-centric. A celebration of mostly white men, if you will.

Daughter had to do the same task on her mother: with no help from AI she came up with - absent, distracted, loves her work.

I won’t waste my time listening to this, I’ve seen his views on LinkedIn (since blocked). Classic white man who learns nothing as he progresses through life and is certain he is right. That’s me being polite.

Just found out somebody is using my name to approach authors. This is MOST DEFINITELY NOT ME. Please be extremely cautious in general about the emails you receive and double check that you’re speaking to the right person. I assume this is some bullshit that AI has facilitated.

It’s exactly these wishy-washy views in AI that will seal our demise. From the LRB nonetheless.

More normalisation of apocalypse preparations. Keep your eyes on this.

If you were ever in doubt whether authors hold any power, just look at how much coverage Sally Rooney has had, this happens every time. Pretty damn effective activism, I’d say.

Book clubs? Reading groups (online and in person)? Marathon readings as fund raisers? If these don't involve the sale of the banned Rooney novels no laws would be broken, at least not yet.

So, Sally Rooney/Faber isn’t allowed to sell her books in the UK, but I assume her books can be read publicly? Maybe something festivals should incorporate this into their programs?

Indeed, and the working assumption must be that any AI detection system is unreliable, unless it is a time-machine to go back in time and watch you produce the work. Lie detectors don't work either as their inventor said,

Can we all agree that the ‘AI-detection tool’ Pangram is entirely unreliable? Logical next move - stop using it and talking about it.

Whole thread a must-read for book folk. 👇👇

And legacy media is part of the problem

Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Busby have been appointed patrons of the Black British Book Festival (BBBF). 👇

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

As if people would be stupid enough to care about what their passport looks like?! Oh. 👀

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Exterminate exterminate

Might be a good time for @thebookseller.com to revisit this and see if anything has changed? (This if from 2017)

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

Not my usual topic, but if you’re a larger size like me, Debenhams has some gorgeous dresses right now, none over £40. 👍

I assume this is a mere inconvenience to AI slop publishers.

You know when new imprints are announced? This is the regular outcome of this ‘strategy’.

It is very disturbing to read how OpenAI coached the Tumbler Ridge school shooter in planning mass murder. Tech companies need to be held accountable for their design "flaws."

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

I was thinking about this, I assume someone could buy the rights to them. Anyone know?

Because I’m a masochist I had a huge rant on LinkedIn. They hate me there. Not sorry.

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People are more stupid on LinkedIn than any other platform.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Customer, after looking at our window: Is it anti-fascist week? Me: It is, this and every week

I would say this is unbelievable, and yet

Fucko demon sloppers 🤣 🎯

What’s an example of perfect casting?

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

Seems that most of this bullying happened a Orion, so I refuse to believe they don’t know who the bullies are. Fire them. A working group 🙄

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan