Let’s face it. Generative AI (GenAI) is probably the most talked about subject for fiction and non-fiction writers (and editors, publishers, cover creators, etc.) today. The topic is pretty much everywhere you look, and with good reason. People are pissed about GenAI. Those companies have stolen our (yes, I’m one of them) works to train their AI babies. And that is wrong. If nothing else, we deserve our royalties for what would’ve been sales of books. And the AI companies should have to pay fines on top of that for blatantly disregarding the law. There’s also the whole concern over plagiarism, but I’m in the camp that feels there can be no action taken regarding that because there’ve been no examples of it happening (except when told to). The AI doesn’t regurgitate chunks of prose from this book and that book to create a new story; it calculates patterns, ‘learns’ when and where to put words. So let’s put that aside for this discussion. And let’s also put aside some...
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