On this Website we will not use AI in the creation of any written work.

Some minor use of AI is acceptable. It is a tool that used correctly can enhance the experience of this website.

Statement from Nigel Hare, owner of this website, and chief contributor to WWA and WWA-imprint.

There are writers and other creators that have a problem with AI. They accuse the companies of copyright theft. And those accusations could be true. AI is a learning tool, and like all human’s that learn we read, we study, we view, and after, we adapt what we have learnt to produce a new creation.

AI is not going to disappear, become banned, or fall under the spear of a white knight. These companies have invested millions, and they want to see a return. Innovative technology has always swallowed jobs. Bringing fear to those that AI could take their job, after fear comes anger.

It happened at the start of the industrial revolution and is a capitalist constant. When I left school the jobs that the teachers told were there, were vanishing fast. First the factories fitted out robots, and the computer invaded the office. Unemployment became a way of life coupled with low paid jobs in the service industries.

That is what AI will do. In my youth it was manufacturing. AI has no bounds. A learning machine, which jobs will be able to resist?

On social media I once got into an argument with a graphic designer over cover design. He was annoyed about AI and how it was already costing him jobs. He wanted to ban AI altogether, without seeing the future potential. I told him of my youth, of all those number crunchers that could lose their jobs in the future. His selfish uncaring attitude to others showed his true nature. His attitude was one of me, me, me – this tool is a threat to me, why should I fight for others. If we fail to see the bigger picture from within our own pain, we can never progress as a society.

Technology should always press forward. We need to evolve our brains and our society so that technology benefits all of humankind and not just the billionaire class.

A selfish whine of how it screws ‘me’ will not achieve that.

Here at WWA we will never publish anything written by AI.

It is a tool to aid us, not a production line.

When we produced the first books, our budget was small, it still is. To create covers we used photographs, merged, and the title placed on top. Copyright laws prevented us from using images found on the net and it took time to find the right photo. And, of course, it was cost prohibited to use humans for the covers.

Using AI enables the association to get closer to the author’s vision for the cover. AI also helps us write the blurb that we hope will sell the content of the books.

AI is a tool. A tool we use.

A new tool that has yet to reach adulthood. A mere toddler running through the house shouting its name while banging a shoe on a large pan. We have witnessed what it can do, imagine a future when AI becomes truly intelligent. The billionaires once issued warnings about that future. Painting it as threat to humankind along the Terminator or Matrix vision.

Why would the billionaires investing in the technology be afraid? Could it be that AI threatens the wealth, power, and status – like my graphic designer friend afraid only for himself.

  I am old and I have cancer. Will I see the fruition of AI?

Beware my friends, do not let the powerful prevent AI from being your allies in your fight for equality.

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