Re: Worldcon AI scandal

On 16/05/2025 22:26, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

According to
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
the upcoming Worldcon has used ChatGPT to vet its program participants.
 I'm encouraged by the fact that there were more than a hundred
responses to that statement, and every one of them was negative.  Some
because ChatGPT is infamous for "hallucinating," i.e. making stuff up
out of thin air.  And some because ChatGPT was programmed using the
works of professional writers, incuding would-be Worldcon program

Professional writers? You mean the woke ones that write like uneducated children?
No one needs any writer's permission to read their work, not even ChatGPT. What the creators of ChatGPT should have done is paid the copyright holders to buy the texts to begin with at the current market price, about $2-$12 per eBook, rather than downloading them from sites PirateBay for nothing in order to train their LLM. Of course the woke perverts want more than the cover price for ChatGPT to read their works and that is totally unjustifiable. You can't charge readers a different price to buy your work depending on who they are.

participants, without their permission.  Several of the commenters
said that they are canceling their membership for this reason.
 

Everyone should boycott all of these conventions for allowing hypocritical woke bigots to take part in them in the first place.

I recommend that anyone thinking of attending read that statement and
all of the responses.
 I will not be attending.
 I'm puzzled by the growing divide between the people who run large
cons and fandom in general.

Get Woke, Go Broke is the message the conventions need to learn.
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The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw
"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it stands for." -William Shatner