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Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy

by doctoboggan on 5/7/25, 3:33 AM with 2 comments

• by searls on 5/7/25, 4:28 AM

  Worried this was about the static site generator. Weirdly relieved.

• by Zanni on 5/7/25, 9:20 AM

  This is an unfortunate stance for science-fiction authors to take. I understand the frustration with generative AI displacing artists and authors work being harvested as training material, but ChatGPT was used here just as a sort of text-processing tool, not to displace any artists or authors, not to make judgements.

  Nick Mamatas, an author I admire, condemning ChatGPT as "the Bad Facts and Dumb Idea Lake-Draining Machine of Stolen Books" is particularly disappointing. (In general, the issue of water usage by LLMs seems particularly overwrought.)