Author's Notes #1 (August 2023)
AI, Writers for the Voice, inattentive television viewers, Barbie and a river of books
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Conversation about AI has been everywhere over the last couple of months. It’s partly responsible for the Writers Strike in the US, which has gone well past 100 days now, and doesn’t sound anywhere close to resolution. ‘This wasn’t a meeting to make a deal. This was a meeting to get us to a cave,’ the Writers Guild of America said after the latest eff…