The airport in Kastelli is about 73% to 74% complete, Greece’s infrastructure minister says, but its opening depends on upgrades to road connections, including sections of the island’s northern highway.

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The worst has gone unsaid: to 'use' LLMs to write flap copy, marketing copy, rejection notes (likely add proof reading/editing) and cover art: THEY HAVE TO FEED YOUR MANUSCRIPT INTO AI TO DO SO! ANY publisher of 'original novels' is GIVING OVER YOUR WORK! Egriegious. Copyright integrity is toast.

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Try to remember that you're not alone in this. Too often we hunker down and don't ask others what they've seen or what is standard.

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Publishers feeding ORIGINAL unpublished work to LLM FOR CUTTING PRODUCTION COSTS is an egregious breach of integrity. Worse, using AI to write rejection letters means feeding your original submissions to the slop machine upfront. Against everything publishing once stood for. There is no bottom.

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A note of caution, regarding the article in Wired pointing out that major publishers are foisting AI onto their employees to cut production costs: INDY writers, you are not exempt. Read the TOS for the platforms you publish on: if they invest your books and artwork into AI. Big tech feeds itself.

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