Add to this how much public opinion is influenced by what the news decides to cover, and I simply don't buy it. Authors of the article may feel free to roll their eyes at me, but you don't make positive change by throwing entire demographics under the bus.

Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.

I mean, you can see why people would like that experience, sure. But yikes that is a terrible system to put in place or even remotely condone.

1) Risks of misinfo are huge
2) Systemic risk of motivating less & less resources to real care.

Possibly, but those just aren't serious questions. So may of them have nothing to do with marketing a novel successfully - why do they care? It's egregious hoop-jumping for authors.

This doesn’t seem like a document coming from an organization destined for long-term success.

I don't know how to tell you it just sucks to struggle your whole life to communicate, find it in a style of art you have developed, and then knowing out there that there's someone scraping everything you did to steal your voice and put it on something you had no choice in speaking for.