A Pet Peeve - You’ve probably seen the video of cute bunnies bouncing on a trampoline. It pretends to be home security footage but it's actually created by AI. Then there’s the AI video showing a cat scaring a bear away from a little boy on a back porch. They’re part of the onslaught of AI videos flooding our social media feeds. And then there are the AI videos showing cute babies laughing at their dad and cute babies laughing at their (always handsome) doctor, etc.   First o

I  I recently learned that at least two of my books were pirated and used by Anthropic PBC to train large language models for use by its Claude chatbot. A class action lawsuit was filed last year against Anthropic for copyright infringement by three authors. In a settlement reached this fall Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit. Yes, $1.5 BILLION! Experts say if the company had not settled, it might very well have been put out of business paying multiple

We’re all under attack. Easy access to Artificial Intelligence has fueled the proliferation of scams, including scams targeting authors...

10-year-old Connie Libraries played an important role in my relationship with books from an early age. Especially since I couldn’t afford...