"The Authors Guild says generative AI threatens writers’ professions by “flooding the market with mediocre, machine-written books, stories, and journalism based on our work.” And that for at least the last decade, authors have experienced a 40% decline in income, with many full-time writers in 2022 barely surpassing the federal poverty level."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-07-19/artificial-intelligence-9000-authors-sign-letter-rebuking-ai-companies-books

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so this thing that has just reached the public eye in the last 10 months is responsible for the last 10 years of publishers under valuing writers. 

Got it. 😑