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Readers are loving Scandalous and I'm thrilled readers are loving Amalie and Valeran. The next Reckless Rockwoods book is Theo's and Genevieve's story, and these two continue to chat randomly with the muse. It's irritating, but I press on. I've started Chapter 7, and I hope to at least have the book done by the end of summer. I have a submission to an editor that needs to be written. It's all plotted out, so I think it will go reasonably fast. Then I'll return my focus to Wills's story Untouchable in the Rockwoods series. There are already seven chapters of his book done.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic on social media these days, and as always, there are two sides of a coin. Part of the problem is a lack of understanding of AI, as there are three different kinds (technically four). However, too many people are getting certain kinds of AI mixed up and confused. This is complicated when people post about AI, but don't clarify what kind their talking about. Posters are assuming two things when they post about AI without clarifying.

1) The poster is assuming everyone knows what AI is, and what kinds of AI there are.
2) The poster is assuming everyone knows what kind of AI they're talking about. People can't read minds.

When the posts don't clarify things and make assumptions, it winds up making information jumbled until people who know little about AI wind up believing all AI is bad. Misinformation is something I CANNOT stand. Knowledge is power, and we need to be knowledgeable or those in power are NOT going to protect creators, as there are legitimate and grave concerns about Generative AI (GAI) .

However, all the fear-mongering, misinformation, and general lack of knowledge about AI in the wild feels like I'm living in Salem, MA. Especially when boycotts, shaming, and vicious accusations are happening on social media. Authors are going to get hurt.

As I said, I have concerns about original content theft, use, and wild, wild west behavior of corporations building their databases, but I think that some GenAI (GAI) can be used ethically in the form of assistive AI (AAI) for things like editing, information gathering and basic story plotting, and researching topics outside of creative content, especially if GAI is pulled from a company's internal database. But it's all a fine line so knowing more about AI helps clarify things.

Beginning with my July newsletter, I plan on doing some short segments and fact-checking based on my research and reading I've done on the topic. My goal is to help expand knowledge of what AI is, how the general public is currently using it, and help readers know what kind of questions to ask others when AI is mentioned. I'm coming prepared with charts, spreadsheets, videos, and geek talk. LOL

Why not signup for my newsletter , and enjoy my monthly historical tidbits I find while research, while absorbing some AI facts, and learn what to look for when it comes to AI content that is published (at this point, it's easy to spot).