@Azuaron @david_chisnall @Jennifer @ewen The AI bubble is causing AI companies to commission huge data centers, which in turn raise commercial real estate prices all round (we're talking fractional-million square metre warehouse scale buildings here, not simple office blocks).

Charlie Stross
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Friends don't let friends mindlessly accept advice from "AI": supporting evidence:Friends don't let friends mindlessly accept advice from "AI": supporting evidence:
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Remember, with the right it's ALWAYS projection.Remember, with the right it's ALWAYS projection. (They denounce in others what they themselves have done or want to do: they can't comprehend how anyone could "think different".)
Complaints about "cancel culture" always indicated a desire for far-right censorship. https://www.threads.com/@barackobama/post/DOvxeLxDajY
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#WritersCoffeeClub 18: Have you written something blasphemous?#WritersCoffeeClub 18: Have you written something blasphemous? Tell us about it.
I'm an atheist who had a non-mainstream religious upbringing and I blaspheme gleefully and at length at every opportunity against any religion that privileges dogma over humanity.
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"A writer should care about nothing other than improving their art."Hard nope"A writer should care about nothing other than improving their art."
Hard nope.
A writer should care about their readers. (Unless you're writing only for yourself, and most folks who do that aren't worth reading, although there are honourable exceptions—Franz Kafka, for example.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?Yes#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?
Yes.
I am published by Tor and Orbit currently (and have been published by other major Big Five imprints in the past).
EVERY SINGLE ONE of my book contracts contains a warranty clause to the effect that it is entirely my own original work, except for cited and referenced quotations (agreed by the publisher).
Use of an LLM would put me in breach of contract and liable for damages.