Indefinite Book Club Hiatus

OK but why would your AI be sending out book club spam? Is it trying to get you to pay for coming to the book club?

I think the solution here would be to write a hand-written letter.

Sure, someone can make AI write a letter with some kind of contraption holding a pen (I think StuffMadeHere did something adjacent to this). But it would likely be more obvious, plus it requires physical actions and a stamp. All things that low-effort AI spammers aren’t going to bother with.

> If you’re a scammer who uses “AI” to try to defraud actual humans, please die in a fucking fire, thanks.

Refreshingly direct and unfiltered, despite Scalzi being a well-established writer.

If you are looking for a refreshingly fun light read to brighten up your day¹, try Scalzi's When the Moon Hits Your Eye (2025), in which the moon turns into actual cheese.

1: It includes the horrific death of a Musk/Bezos-like tech-bro with more money and tech than sense. Good fun!

More and more of the internet of humans need to rely on recommendations of other humans. Lobste.rs and other like such that retain the tree of joined people could work for other communities as well. Kind of like return of the FTP warez scene of 90s but for the rest of us.

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Sounds like an excuse to me. It’s easy enough to recognise ai spam. Unless he is saying ai can replicate human writing?

To be clear, if he wanted to accept a book club invite every month or so, that would be quite easy to achieve. I doubt AI is the issue here

'Bluntly, I can spend my days sorting “book club” spam, or I can write books. One pays me money. The other does not. '

erm, doing the actual book club doesn't pay either and is going to take a lot more energy than selecting a genuine invite from the slush pile.

Sorry, why do we care about this one dude's opinion?

I host book clubs and we always have a fantastic time.

Although my writing style/unhinged nature makes it pretty obvious no LLM would ever write like this. Hedonist Philosophers are not exactly what LLMs were trained on.