the government of alberta sending an email to 'pause' the book ban on what should be the first day of school is wild. if the policies can be reversed through gmail maybe they weren't that great of an idea... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
CBC’s Front Burner interviewed author David Bergen on his decision to boycott the #GillerPrize.
I encourage all of us in the #book industry to listen.
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
I also think if we all agree we are underpaid it's worse to accept such a "small" payout instead of using funds to fight for large scale structural change
We didn't write this one
you can say no. you can say, this is not enough. you can say, I don't care that AI is everywhere, that there are those that think it is inevitable. it isn't. you are bankrupting the future, you are bankrupting my students and peers, when you should be fighting. I get it now
AI has already used marginalized writers' works, so that big publishers, staffed by countless wh*te people, can use us? I am shaking that this is okay for the union. that this racial injustice is okay, too
I'm the one on the ground teaching students who are frequently stunted by their reliance on AI, who lack literacy, who could look to us published writers for leadership and guidance and still be taught the value of protecting our own voices
we should be taking these AI owners to court for our works that have already been used, not making it okay to take more under some 'acceptable' use. you don't get it, do you? what AI will be taught from our work will be more than what we can monetize and 'fairly' compensate
AI is being shoved into everything. sure. but acting like we have no choice but to let it, and that we should take our dues and our royalties for it, is defeatist and morally unjust to be okay with it. first publishing gatekeeps us, and now only the published get the reparations
take your land acknowledgements out of your website if you don't mean them. I am ashamed to be a member of an organization that will tell us writers are underpaid and then turn around and throw us under the bus because there's 'no use' fighting environmentally exploitative tech
they should be ashamed. we should not be accepted short-term scraps in favour of lasting, long-term harm. forget how AI systems use water as a coolant for these machines, in a country where water is stolen and controlled, and how this is environmentally devastating
so the writers' union of canada wants to support the use of letting AI be trained on our writing now that writers are being offered royalties. this is unacceptable and humiliating. AI is exploitative and writers should have a fucking backbone in preventing their own obsolescence
unfortunately I am here to fight people now
man everyone's been so busy, this will take me a minute. ty!!!
I didn't know this was where y'all went but time to catch up, lol. hope you're safe and well.
my nephew just discovered pockets, so I can't say the world is all bad. hi, I'm here now <3
hiiii I just got here, pls add <3