I don’t think this is their main goal, but I do think they’re trying to make it so that everyone stores everything in the cloud and also streams everything so that people have to pay rent to tech companies forever. A side effect is that they can censor and disappear basically anything they want

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If I were more conspiracy brained, I might consider that tech companies are buying up all the storage for their data centers so that consumers aren’t able to store anything on their own hardware.

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A 4 TB hard drive that I bought a few years ago for $250 is *on sale* for $1000 part of what GenAI is doing to us is creating a situation where we *have* to use the cloud and the data centers where it lives because individual storage is becoming unaffordable

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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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