When people ask me to do a talk for them, I say that I won't speak before 11 am b/c I am a night owl and I can't be my best. 99% of the people say "No problem!" I gave an opening keynote two weeks ago and they just... started the conference later (nice of them). It's just a balance of power thing.

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They can’t make money on AI books. They can make a lot of money on Scalzi books. That clause is in all my new contracts too, and while they don’t make as much on me, it’s still way more than the zero they currently make on AI books.

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I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

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It hurts so good 👌📚 these ones made me cry, made me angry, made me feel so seen it hurt, in other words; made me *feel*

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Makes 'em feel too subordinate. Same reason my generally-convivial tomcats get into washing-the-other-guy's-ears battles: each one is telling the other one, "I'm the boss." It's like Brits jostling to be "Mother" and pour at teatime. Or little boys saying "I'm not a baby!"

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