Notices by Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop), page 5

Black people were three times more likely to receive Covid fines in England and Wales https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/31/black-people-england-wales-more-likely-issued-pandemic-fines-police-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Current mood (repeat):

Good riddance, don't let the doorknob hit you on the way out, etc.

Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!

Neil Clarke notes a concerning trend in short fiction submissions to Clarkesworld: storyspam generated by ChatGPT and friends is on the rise: http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/

This scam relies on the onlooker's ignorance of a key element of the reader/writer ecosystem: readers have finite time for reading, and their time is inelastic.

The very first sentence in the pitch asserts that it's easy to write a bestselling book (with or without AI assistance). But if that was the case, why isn't everybody doing it already?

Books can't all be bestsellers, because the customers' reading time is inelastic. So they buy on perceived quality. So this is a grift. QED.