Comments on: Artificial intelligence wants to inhale my Montana book

By: Ellen Taylor

Ellen Taylor — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:13:04 +0000

Really curious what you decided. Bloomsbury Publishing wanted me to “opt-in” to a blanket licensing agreement with unspecified AI companies – I’d get 20% (of what I don’t quite know) and they’d get 80%. After consulting with the Authors Guild folks, I declined the offer. The book was written by my late husband and I have gone through the whole, “Maybe it will make the book more available and that would be a good thing,” versus “Maybe its a complete rip-off.” I don’t know. One possibility is the “Created by Humans” licensing platform that Authors Guild is partnering with. I plan to check it out.

By: Phil White

Phil White — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:18:48 +0000

I am also an author, based in Evergreen, Colorado. This is typical of unaccountable Big Tech billionaires like Zuck. They do not care about whit about your intellectual property or writing, but rather about their bottom line. We must all club together and get some sort of standards in place to prevent large-scale intellectual property theft. I’m mates with the likes of Peter Heller and Francine Mathews – we should have a Colorado and Montana chapter of something like the National Author Rights Preservation Society. My mates at The Center for Humane Technology can help. I’m not kidding. Thanks for your thoughtful article.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:08:53 +0000

Remember Lewis Carroll’s famous poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”
“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things…”

Guess who is the Walrus and who are the oysters in this drama. Don’t get eaten.
cheers-