Writers - Foz Meadows

Foz Meadows joins us to discuss his "Against AI" polemic, written in response to Erin Underwood's open letter to SFWA and the SFF community in the wake of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association's announcement that works written by LLM tools and works for which LLM tools were used at any point in the writing process would not be eligible for consideration. The conversation touches on not only Foz's piece, but also the sheer stupidity of thinking we can outsource the act of thinking to machines that do not think, what the introduction of LLMs is doing to education, and the role that writers—especially science fiction and fantasy writers—have to play in resisting the inevitability narrative.

Mentioned in this episode:

1. Against AI - Foz's response to Erin Underwood's open letter to SFWA and the SFF community [permalink]
2. Nebula Awards Rules - section 9.11 deals with LLM tools [permalink]
3. Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community - by Erin Underwood [permalink]
4. xkcd: Duty Calls - someone is wrong on the internet
5. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. - case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than for the benefit of his employees or customers
6. No Take, Only Throw - a webcomic strip in which a dog wants to play fetch with its owner [permalink]