@pluralistic thank you for continuing to write and fight for those of us who don’t know better. Your posts and books are required reading for my employees.
In 1992, my professor lamented the computer, “All inventions that make a craft easier result in more crap.” Do you agree with that statement? Based on that, I have been calling LLM text ‘Microwave Prose”. The models can take decent writing and heat it up, but that’s about it.
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "Big Tech Can’t Stop Telling On Itself: PREMEDITATED_MURDER_FINAL_FINAL_1.docx"
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