If You’re Not Going to Engage with the Problems, Shut Up About GenAI
Yesterday, SF/F fan/YouTuber Erin Underwood posted a “GenAI open letter” on File770. By this point in the “discourse,” you’d have to be living on the Moon without an Internet connection to not understand just how much the SF/F/H community despises GenAI as an avenue for creative function. However, you’d have to be a moral coward to understand this fact and not meaningfully engage with any of the major reasons for that response. Unfortunately, Erin Underwood is a moral coward. I think it’s important to note that before the “letter” proper, Underwood states her reluctance to publish it, stating that she is “so tired of being afraid of our community” because people are quite forward and aggressive in their opposition. This is true and demonstrated in the reactions to Underwood both in the comments and on social media.