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Originally posted by ledvm:
Every time we predict the future…the future reveals our ignorance.

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Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:

~Ann

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Originally posted by RolandtheHeadless:
I wouldn't assume you're safe from AI competition, no matter what your field. When I first heard of the issue, I thought freelance fiction writers were safe. An AI will never be able to produce creative works. Wrong! Cases of AI-authored fiction are appearing more and more often, some using stolen names.

What unscrupulous AI creators do is feed in a writer's work so the AI can reproduce that work, the style, plots, character depictions, and so on. Current copyright law provides real authors with no protection because the AI's output is considered an original work. At least that's prevailing opinion.

I suspect an AI took my name, reversed it so the last name was first, and is selling digital novels on Amazon. A search of my name turns up the AI's novels also. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jam...215&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Why do I think it's an AI? First, my last name, Sarafin, is not common: it's borne by only one in more than 800,000 people in the US. Use of Sarafin as a first name is even rarer. What are the odds of someone named "Sarafin James" becoming a fantasy writer?

Second is is the "author's" prodigious, incredible output of something like a novel every month or so. It takes most authors a year or more to produce a novel.

My last name is rarely used as a first name, and when it is, it's a male name. "Sarafin James" is described in her/its website as female.

It might be a real person who chose the name as a nom d' plum, a pen name, I guess. But why that name? In any event, it makes me mad and I don't know of anything I can do about it.

I expect lawyers and doctors to be next. Professionals will be replaced with AIs, and laborers with robots.

Maybe we'll all have to go on a living wage from the government.