AI is a problem for editors and authors – and it's serious.
There is a dark side to this technology, with major long-term consequences for authorship and editorial work that we're only just beginning to discover – not least copyright theft.
Begging AI doomers to unsheathe their feet from synthetic fibers binding them, find an exterior door, walk outside, and feel a prickly cool matting of grass with bare virgin soles. Reconnect with the psychic tendrils of Gaia our mother.
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"The ersatz biography and other titles by the pseudonymous author were removed by Amazon, but plenty more get through the filters intended to weed out low-quality books."
If you recently learned that your book (or books) were used without your knowledge or consent to train AI, here's what you can do next, according to the Authors Guild (which has already filed a class action suit against OpenAI, representing more than a dozen writers).
As an editor, I'm supporting authors against AI scraping of their work without consent.
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This AI will follow along and take the session notes for the doctor by
listening to the office visit. It will also bring up charts and records
through voice command and prompt the doctor to do routine things during
the office visit. It's due out early next year.
This could be very helpful.
However I can imagine a few kinks in the office visit process initially:
Patient: "Doctor, my knee hurts"
AI: "REMEMBER TO MAKE A FOLLOW-UP APPOINTMENT"
Patient: "What was that?!"
Doctor: "Oh pay no attention -- that is just the new AI system everyone
has to consent to for treatment. It will help us during the session."
AI: "HAVE YOU EXAMINED THE KNEE X-RAY YET?"
Doctor: "AI, pull up the knee x-ray"
Patient: "This is my first visit, there is no knee x-ray yet."
AI: "REMEMBER TO SCHEDULE A KNEE X-RAY"
Doctor & Patient Together: "We don't know if we need a knee x-ray yet!"
Patient: "It started hurting yesterday"
Doctor: "Jump up on the table and I'll take a look at it"
AI: "SHALL I SUMMON A NURSE TO WATCH TO GUARD AGAINST ALLEGATIONS OF
IMPROPRIETY?"
Doctor: "NO!"
Doctor: "It does look a bit red. Does this hurt?"
Patient: "A bit when you touch there and I bend it."
AI: "SHALL I SCHEDULE THE KNEE X-RAY NOW?"
Doctor: "SHUT UP! AI -- Silent mode now!"
Office visits are going to be fun the next few years while this gets sorted.
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