If you’re an author who’s been receiving verbose AI scam emails on a daily basis, and you’re wondering how gullible and ego-driven people think you are, this article helps to explain them. Sadly, they are successful enough to have been built into a big business. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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My Inaugural Professorial Lecture at @glasgow.ac.uk has been announced: “A kind of elvish craft”: In conversation with Prof. Tolkien Myth, folklore, fairy-story, fantasy + the traditions behind the stories we tell. 9 Nov, 5pm. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-s... @uofgartshums.bsky.social

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Oof, this. Would I have been able to identify a 'definitely produced by genAI' story in the Escape Pod slush when it was just starting? Maybe. Can I identify the (approximately) billion or so genAI emails I get every week NOW? Yep. 1. Pattern recognition 2. Quantity 3. No actual substance

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Twelve years ago this week I went back to Mizzou, my doctoral alma mater, to give an invited talk on my first book. This Friday I’m back to give my first US keynote from the Actual Play book, along with two days of events for students and community as part of Mizzou’s Week of Writing.

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There's going to a lot of walking the vast, dark, and mossy corridors of silent and defunct data centres in future dystopias isn't there?

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