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i'm not someone who relies on income from this type of stuff but it boils my blood it does. Guaranteed if they were pushed on it they will say some kind of airy BS about how selling is mostly AI driven these days and requires human interaction when these things are raised. With our dedicated team who value artists work as we make each other successful in a beneficial relationship we are striving to ensure everyone maximises their potential (meanwhile they toggle the switch that limits how much web time Goggins work gets as his revenue drops even further)

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and I imagine with the algorithms now available to generate content which can be based on a specific authors work will only make this worse.

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Feb 29·edited Feb 29Liked by John Birmingham

actually I am now wondering if there are any authors whose writing is so incredibly terrible that an algorithm renders it more readable? I tried entering 'The Tay Bridge Disaster' by William McGonagall and the ChatAi simply refused.

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Yep. Not much to add here.

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I can remember a certain Australian novelist having the same problem on a western European branch of said bookpeddler. Your legal department is doing bootcamp I gather ... ?

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