Writers beware—any "personalized" requests for book club features or radio interviews are usually AI scams. I get several per week. Ask other writers if you're unsure.
As a YouTuber, I will never, ever accept sponsorship from AI anything (and I'm unlikely to accept sponsorships, period).
Diane Callahan
Also we are inundated with AI scams. Just drowning in them. Multiple per day. Over and over.
It makes my life harder because I have to scrutinize every piece of fan mail I get to see if it's real or some piece of shit using AI to try to scam me out of money.
Courtney Milan
The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.
Bree is Romancing the Vote!
I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
A key reason people in China are more receptive to AI than in America is that the courts there have ruled that you can't just lay people off because Claude can now do research and write code. You need a better reason than that.
In America, CEOs can't wait to get rid of "low value human capital".
