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Maria Heater
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Through, like Shy Girl. There are probably more we don’t know about yet. But the pollution of our last, most democratic art form by scammers using AI to generate literary homunculi and pretend otherwise, is deeply sad to me. And I don’t know where we go from here.
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Maria Heater
I love this thread & the book world for being the last cultural pillar that is still plausibly (mostly?) meritocratic. No, not every good book manages to break through and many not so good ones do. Brilliant writers get rejected and brilliant pub folk get laid off (or never make it in). But…
While nepo babies and the extremely privileged/wealthy consume more and more of the scant opportunities in Hollywood, and the music industry continues to make Hollywood look like a charity, books are the LAST cultural space where you can make it purely on your own hard work and talent…
It is basically the only media left not run exclusively by the ultra rich! & there’s something beautifully equalizing that no matter the writer’s background, they all had to do the same hard work of hammering out a whole book by themselves! At least until recently, which brings me to AI…
Beyond the theft and plagiarism, the most stomach turning part of it is that with a few mouse clicks, any loser can have a frankensteined book-shaped thing without doing the work. They can cheat themselves into consideration as was never previously possible. Some are even breaking all the way…
Maria Heater
Can trace their lineages back centuries & probably participated in chattel slavery (see Benedict Cumberbatch), you’re prob not getting in. This goes for the industry professionals too, who are mostly middle class, get bills that stress them out and run their own errands & take public transit
No connections, no wealth (although both help). Just you, your work, and the luck of timing. The odds of breaking through are still slim, but they’re *miles* wider than music and movies. Writers from the 99% are the norm, compared to say, the UK film industry where unless your ancestors…
