On Artists, Artisans, Art, & AI

Faithful Reproduction, Myths of Individual Genius, and LLMs under Capitalism

It’s been another loaded week for the SFF industry on social media, thanks to the launch and immediate ratio-ing of Sudowrite, an app based on GPT-4 technologies that its creators claim will help would-be writers craft long form fictions—and most everyone else in the field considers a troubling development.

Jason Sanford runs an excellent Genre Grapevine