John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻Mar 10

Neat tactic.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright

Sad to see the UK gov’t fucking over creators.
#writers #books #publishing

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

The Guardian
Show threadwilander

@jwilker Neat trick indeed.

Have you written about your views on this topic? It's a hard one. LLMs are obviously really useful. And it's unlikely that the world would retract existing models. So what do we do? Each book is a very small piece of the training data so some kind of royalty would be very small.

Mar 11 at 4:23amWeb
Show threadJohn Wilker 👨🏽‍💻Mar 12

@wilander I haven't. Not in any one place at least. I view it as using the bumpers in bowling. I think most people use it as a crutch.

We're definitely stuck with it, but I don't see any value it adds to my creative work, so haven't used it. I enjoy research. I enjoy writing. I don't need a LLM to do those things for me.

For me it's less the $ amount and more the principle. Those companies had the money and means and chose piracy. I would have licensed my work, but wasn't ask. I was robbed.