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NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

This is insane.

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

I can't tell you how relieved I am to finally see this entering the discussion, oh my god Of course we artists have been screaming it for years but I'm just thankful that because of that, news media is finally starting to be bold enough to explore that after AI's rep has tanked recently

In a few weeks the UK gov will make a decision about whether or not to extend Palantir's contoversial contract with NHS England. Please fill this out if you want Palantir out of our NHS. Only takes a minute! nopalantirinthenhs.com

The eugenicist rhetoric that’s worked so well for Covid is now being applied to climate change. They want you to believe it won’t impact you. It’ll only hurt those “other” people. The vulnerable. The elderly and disabled. The “useless eaters” society deemed expendable.

I just subscribed to this block list, and I really appreciate the public service provided here

Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

wish people would stop calling proportional representation a change to the system, it's an upgrade

As we all said, Labour didn't win in '24: the Tories lost. People consistently voted for whoever would beat the Tory candidate and Labour were the overall beneficiaries. When there's an actual alternative, we see how colossally unpopular Starmer's fash-curious management consultants truly are.

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Every one of our governments around the world who have committed to vastly expanding data centre construction funding has probably contributed to this insane economic partition in who can afford to buy computation.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

A reminder of the ever growing list of Indie Publishers on Bluesky Add it to your feeds to see what they’re up to Give me a shout if you want added bsky.app/profile/did:...

People often ask me why I’m outspoken about trans rights. I’m not trans so “why do you care?”
 I care because what the government is doing to trans people is wrong. I care because we are being conditioned to accept atrocities. 🧵

Most people are unaware of the fact. I was, until saw the sign on the doors! Private equity companies have bought many of the country’s ERs. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

The percentage of children’s books with a racially minoritised main character has halved since 2022. A third of primary school children in the UK are Black and brown. The publishing industry needs to do so much better. It’s failing this generation of readers. Full report at clpe.org.uk

Faber has a new children's literature award for unpublished manuscripts #UKKidLit #UKKidLitNews www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...

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Start of a new Starter Pack, this time for literary events. If you are one or know of one on Bluesky, please let me know. 💙📚 #BookSky go.bsky.app/PHw99bS

If you see this, post a monster.

Great word, @susiedent.bsky.social! And, if you have the 'gwenders' you'll probably shiver, originally 'chiveren', from the Old English word for 'jaw' ... because the cold makes our teeth chatter!

Hmmmm. I should probably post something shouldn’t I? Here, have a corgi…

These are starter packs covering a wider group of bookish people #kidlitUK go.bsky.app/LEQd4SR go.bsky.app/EuGRKnC go.bsky.app/TEbP2cq

I’m trying to make my first Starter Pack! Where are all my @write-mentor.bsky.social friends? Hub members/writers/anyone involved in any way. I’d love to find everyone on Bluesky. Please give me a wave if you want to be added go.bsky.app/4xu4cAe