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@Pioneer1 ah ok, I posted it in this section of the forum cause I didn't feel this reflected anything I wanted on my status line at this time nor did it have a literary angle I was interested in going to, but with current events it is warranted to post so I did. For me, the USA's past starting as english colonies created an environment of dysfunction around most topics to the people in it. that modernity can not or will not be able to fix absent more dysfunction.

topic The sixty-third of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. The Wall of Phoenix Tears + Phoenix Crying Dates: New Moon ; Tennyson IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Lolita ; Kat Blaque two points ; Poor Things film review; Mambo - Jan Cardell Mechanical Orchestra ; Krull Morning Star ; Breadboard CPU runs code from ROM ; Outing in the lgbtq+ URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/11/08/04/2024-rmnewsletter.html

read https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1082140108 tell me what you think of the poetry + calligraphy

Art and Design DALL-E (OpenAI) - Creates images from textual descriptions. Artbreeder - Blends existing images to create new ones. DeepDream - Visualizes the inner workings of neural networks. RunwayML - Offers various AI tools for creative projects. DeepArt - Transforms photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists. This Person Does Not Exist - Generates photorealistic faces of fictional people. GauGAN (NVIDIA) - Paints landscapes using a deep neural network. Text and Writing ChatGPT (OpenAI) - Capable of conversing and providing information on various topics. Grammarly - Enhances writing by checking grammar, style, and tone. QuillBot - Paraphrases and rewrites text to improve clarity and variety. Writesonic - Assists in writing articles, blogs, and marketing content. Jasper - AI writing assistant tailored for marketing professionals. Music and Audio Aiva - Composes original music scores using AI. Amper Music - Creates and customizes original music tracks. Landr - Offers AI-powered music mastering services. NSynth (Google Magenta) - Generates new sounds using neural audio synthesis. Video and Animation Synthesia - Creates AI videos from text in multiple languages. Deepfake - Video editing software that can alter faces and voices. Pictory - Transforms text into engaging video content. RunwayML - Again, for its capabilities in video editing and effects. Developers and Coding GitHub Copilot - Assists in writing code by suggesting lines or whole blocks. Replit's Ghostwriter - Offers coding assistance and debugging help. Tabnine - Code completion tool powered by machine learning. Business and Marketing Crayon - Tracks competitors’ activities across digital channels. Persado - Generates creative language for marketing communication. Phrasetech - Automates content creation for websites and digital marketing. Educational Tools Squirrel AI - Personalized learning experiences for students. Thinkster Math - Customizes math tutoring using AI. Duolingo - Language learning enhanced with AI-driven techniques. Health and Wellness Ada Health - AI-powered health assessment and guidance. Babylon Health - Offers AI-driven medical consultations. BioSymetrics - Preprocesses healthcare data for analysis. Miscellaneous GPT-3 - Capable of various tasks from translations to answering questions. Murf AI - Converts text to lifelike speech for voiceovers. DeepStack - Integrates AI into poker to provide strategies and learning.

@Troy of course it is opinion, i didn't say you said I was right or wrong. but you asked Why adapt a pedophile into a Black character? I simply imagine characters black and while I don't normally think of black pedophiles, it is easier for me to convert a non black character into black than write a non black character. What purposes does that serve? Just my way of creating Just leave that character as originally written. I have thought about what you are not saying or alluding to and i get it. a black writer writing a black pedophile has two potential negatives. 1) non blacks who can utilize such a character as license 2) blacks who despise the sight of black characters in negative forms as such Both will create a negative creative or commercial response to such a work. I think, I can be wrong, I get your point, though you are not as clear as I wish o rhoped you would be. what do you think my fellow black writers? @Mel Hopkins @DeeSiwisa @Milton @Dee Miller @Jean2021

topics 1) The sixty-second of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. 2)Soon for the Savory Pie - Jiausiku 3)I.V.D. zone (The Intragalactic Violence Deaccretion Zone) - photomanipulation Shadow Jiausiku Dates- perseids IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Clare Lydon with KWL ; 80 sci fi gems ; Bill Cobbs ; hiphopera of babatunde akinboboye ; Who created valerie brown ; when she is mad at you adamw ; Agents of Color URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/07/28/2024-rmnewsletter.html

@Troy thanks for your reply. I admit the source of my approach is two things. First one writer said you can't make a screenplay of Lolita because to be true to the book it has to be from the abusers perspective and has to involve the abuser abusing a child, or underaged female, and the prior two movies production and after effect are examples that give proof to this. But whenever soeone says something can't be written that inspires me. Second, I rarely think of non black characters in my imagination, no matter who. Now to your question, why adapt lolita with black characters? I have questions. Why do you call that the real question? What do you see that is problematic or some negative that I don't? I want to know. I am guessing but I can be wrong, you see Lolita with Black characters as terrible de facto or something negative that I don't, am I right?

Is Lolita impossible to adapt and moreover, what are your thoughts to a "Lolita" involving all black characters ? https://www.tumblr.com/communities/midnight-hour/post/756816864056868864/ebony-lolita-lets-talk i am the moderator so I can invite you if you want

@Lee and Low Books is thrilled to be the recipient of the 2024 ALAN Award, marking the first time a publishing company has been honored! 🎉 Read the press release to learn more about the award and why we were selected. https://alan-ya.org/2024/06/28/press-release-alan-award-2024/ Press Release: Lee & Low wins the ALAN Award 2024 The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) is pleased to announce Lee & Low Books as the recipient of the 2024 ALAN Award. The award honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature. Join us at the ALAN Breakfast to celebrate Lee & Low’s remarkable accomplishments. Lee & Low Books is the largest independent multicultural children’s book publisher in the United States. The family-run and certified 100% Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) produces award-winning, high-quality books that are about everyone, for everyone — from picture books to middle grade and young adult novels as well as a wide selection of bilingual and Spanish language titles. Lee & Low’s commitment to greater representation in the publishing industry is reflected in the often-cited Diversity Baseline Survey and in the writing contests for unpublished writers of color or Indigenous/Native writers: New Voices Award and New Visions Award. The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) is pleased to announce Lee & Low Books as the recipient of the 2024 ALAN Award. The award honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature. Join us at the ALAN Breakfast to celebrate Lee & Low’s remarkable accomplishments. Lee & Low Books is the largest independent multicultural children’s book publisher in the United States. The family-run and certified 100% Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) produces award-winning, high-quality books that are about everyone, for everyone — from picture books to middle grade and young adult novels as well as a wide selection of bilingual and Spanish language titles. Lee & Low’s commitment to greater representation in the publishing industry is reflected in the often-cited Diversity Baseline Survey and in the writing contests for unpublished writers of color or Indigenous/Native writers: New Voices Award and New Visions Award. Over the decades since they were founded, Lee & Low Books has pushed for industry change in remarkable ways and established inventive and sustainable initiatives to support and nurture many authors and illustrators, increasing diversity in the literature available to librarians, educators, and most importantly, young readers. Publisher Jason Low will provide remarks on behalf of Lee & Low Books at the upcoming ALAN breakfast to be held on November 23, during the 2024 NCTE Conference in Boston, MA. The members of the 2024 ALAN Award Committee are Chair Dr. Rob Bittner, Past Chair Shalonda Foster, Tracey Flores, Morgan Jackson, and Karimah Tennyson-Marsh. Register for the ALAN Breakfast at https://convention.ncte.org/2024-convention/ when you register for NCTE and/or ALAN. Want to build a more inclusive collection for your classroom, school, or district this coming school year? Contact our Educational Sales Team for a quote. https://forms.zohopublic.com/leelowbooks/form/CustomizedClassroomLibraries/formperma/CRtCjpJj9zq1uJWpzaZbPECb1ZEZCgleefFo4XN3Xak Join us for a free webinar [ https://forms.zohopublic.com/leelowbooks/form/SIGNUPTODAYWonderKnowledgeandJoyinEarlyLiteracyWeb/formperma/5fmerC2iAPgQGUj5xRK7dYBSVr4X5hLTcfrsZ3CvRHk ] on Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 at 3:00 PM ET with Dr. Barbara Flores, professor, expert bilingual educator, and creator of the groundbreaking Bebop Más Piñata Series. [ https://www.leeandlow.com/imprints/mas-pinata ] She will lead an inspiring discussion on nurturing essential early literacy skills for the start of the school year.

Two stageplays Soon for the Savory Pie https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1077780099 I.V.D. zone (The Intragalactic Violence Deaccretion Zone) https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1077788765

any member in this group is a member of the following https://newplayexchange.org/ please tell me your experience with it? this is my yearly project for stageplays, tell me what you think of any of them https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/90812819/jiausiku-2024

The 29th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter. topics The sixty-first of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. Dates IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Frog and Toad from India Rose Crawford ; Carbon armor ; Design to Repair ; Tom Bombadil and telling a story in different ways ; Sensitivity ; Gundam ; George RR Martin made winds of winter unfinishable URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/07/21/2024-rmnewsletter.html

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MY REPLY At the end of the day it is simple. At the least the wealthy countries in humanity's artists will be fully supported by computer programs. Those artists in the wealthy countries who don't use it will either be financially unprofitable or undercut themselves. Now of course artists outside wealthy countries who will either not have access to these computer programs but will have their art mimicked and mirrored by artist in the wealthy countries aided by said computer programs. Clearly a counter movement will arise that will probably demand live creating such that the audience is interested in the craft but also the absence of computer program assistance in creating itself. Even now you see the seeds that culture too which have its own difficulties for artists who want privacy or can't afford event spaces. Where do I reside? I have never minded artists using any tool and I support artists on places like Deviantart or Kobo in using such tools but I don't use them myself. What does that mean to my future ability to make profit from my art. It is possible financial obsolescence is my future. But financial obsolescence isn't creative obsolescence. No one is stopping any creator from creating. So keep creating. I am lucky that I don't have to rely on my art to make money to survive. But...who knows the future. THE ARTICLE Like It or Not, Publishers Are Licensing Books for AI Training—And Using AI Themselves updated July 18, 2024 first published July 17, 2024 by Jane Friedman The following article condenses material that I’ve been writing about for the last 18 months in my paid newsletter, The Hot Sheet. [ http://hotsheetpub.com/] The train has left the station, the ship has sailed, pick your preferred metaphor. This week, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) announced [https://www.copyright.com/media-press-releases/ccc-pioneers-collective-licensing-solution-for-content-usage-in-internal-ai-systems/] the ability for publishers and other rights holders to include AI training rights as part of licensing arrangements. In other words, they’re giving AI companies a one-stop shop for all their model training needs. Update: An article in Publishers Weekly notes [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/95512-ccc-launches-collective-licensing-for-ai.html] this licensing would be limited to internal use for licensees, which means it would not extend to public-facing models such as ChatGPT. However, it’s easy to see how the CCC is taking steps to position itself to offer something more extensive. What is the CCC? It is a for-profit company that manages collective copyright licensing for corporate and academic publishers. Generally, its mission is to help publishers earn money off copyright and expand copyright protections for rights holders. In the CCC’s announcement, the president of the Association of American Publishers says, “Voluntary licensing solutions are a win-win for everybody in the value chain, including AI developers who want to do the right thing. I am grateful to organizations like CCC, as they are helping the next generation marketplace to evolve robustly and in forward-thinking fashion.” A handful of book publishers have already struck deals with the AI companies directly. Wiley, a major academic publisher who is also known for the Dummies series, announced two deals in June, to the tune of $44 million. Many major media organizations, like News Corp and The Atlantic, have also struck deals. (Here is a running list. [ https://originality.ai/blog/openai-partnerships ]) I think it’s fair to say that, before long, every major publisher will be earning money through AI training, whether it’s through the CCC, another collective licensing agency, or directly with tech companies, if they are big or desirable enough (as Wiley is). How do writers protect themselves? I’m asked this question a lot, and often I say things like “Join the Authors Guild,” since they’re deeply involved in the issue of compensation for authors and advocate for their rights. But increasingly, I’m also pushing back on the question: What do you need protecting from? While the AI companies will always carry the original sin of training on copyrighted work without permission or licensing, they’re now going through appropriate channels to obtain training material. Yes, there are lawsuits underway (by the New York Times and the Authors Guild, among others) that have to play out and may settle out of court. But even if the rights holders win in the end, the models will not shut down. The AI companies will not go out of business. Instead, remedies will be found for rights holders and business will continue as usual. Recently, Mary Rasenberger at the Authors Guild told [ https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2024/06/former-scribd-co-founder-launches-ai-licensing-company-for-books/] Publishers Marketplace (sub required) that they see AI licensing as a good source of income for writers down the road and that they’ve been talking to publishers for months about who owns AI training rights and how to work the revenue splits. She said, “I am completely optimistic there will be joint agreements between publishers and authors on this. It is not the hardest problem in the world.” Fortunately, she says publishers so far agree they need permission from authors to license books for AI. Theoretically, authors could object and withhold their material from training, but that would be turning down free money. The average author’s concerns about AI training or ingestion often betrays a misunderstanding about what today’s large-language models are intended to do. They are not databases where you retrieve information. They are not machines that intend to steal, plagiarize, or regurgitate. (If and when they do, the developers consider that a flaw to be worked out.) Benedict Evans has expressed[ https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/8/27/generative-ai-ad-intellectual-property] this eloquently: “OpenAI hasn’t ‘pirated’ your book or your story in the sense that we normally use that word, and it isn’t handing it out for free. Indeed, it doesn’t need that one novel in particular at all. In Tim O’Reilly’s great phrase, data isn’t oil; data is sand. It’s only valuable in the aggregate of billions, and your novel or song or article is just one grain of dust in the Great Pyramid.” That said, authors might certainly object to the AI companies themselves, how they are run, the ethics of the people behind them, the future implications of AI use, etc—and avoid involvement for that reason. But refusing to engage at all with the technology may end up penalizing yourself more than them—not because there’s going to be some incredible revolution (I don’t buy into most of the hype surrounding AI), but because you’ll end up working harder or spending more money than everyone else who is using these tools. The technology is destined to be integrated into daily life, for better and for worse. Authors and publishers are using AI to write and publish—today. And it plays a role at all stages of the writing and publishing process that many professionals would find acceptable and ethical. While it may be unethical for someone to use AI to generate 5,000 spammy reviews, in other cases people prefer AI content, like when it’s used to improve summaries of scientific articles. Publishers are beginning to differentiate between two types of AI use in the writing and publishing process. During a Book Industry Study Group panel about AI use, Gregory M. Britton, editorial director at Johns Hopkins University Press, discussed [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYQpzm6OmU ] these two types. One is content creation, which publishers have legal concerns about, and the other is the content management, or the editorial tools, which JHU encourages. “I think it would be foolish for an author to submit a manuscript without running spell check on it before they turn it in,” and he sees AI editing tools as analogous. One of JHU’s authors, José Antonio Bowen, used AI to find all the places where he may have been repetitive in the manuscript, and he also used AI successfully to help him with fact-checking and citations. He disclosed all of this use to his editors. Some may be surprised that AI can find factual errors in a manuscript, given the problematic results it can generate, but much depends on the tool, the user, and the prompt. Which brings us to the next important point. Authors are responsible for the quality and correctness of their work, whether they use AI or not. Even if the use of AI in content creation blurs the lines of intellectual property and originality, authors remain accountable for the quality of their work. That means you can’t blame the AI for getting something wrong; you remain responsible for vetting what the AI does. Even those who question the ethicality of generative AI believe that writers and students today should (or must) learn to use it. “What faculty and teachers call cheating, business calls progress,” Bowen said during the panel. “If you say you can’t use a tool or refuse to use it, your colleagues who use the tool will complete their work faster and better.” In other words, AI is raising the average. However, Bowen said, “AI is better than 80 percent of humans at a lot of things, but it’s not better than the experts. … The best writers, the best experts are better than AI.” AI is being used to fuel translated works. Machine translation has been around for a long time, but advances in generative AI are leading to a new renaissance in book translation. Once again, a Book Industry Study Group panel examined [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwm8NBmycI ] how AI is being used right now to translate and to assist human translators; panelists included Robert Casten Carlberg, the CEO and co-founder of Nuanxed, a translation agency. Because AI-assisted translation is incredibly cheaper and faster, it has the potential to grow the market for translations and lead to new jobs in the management of translations. Founded in 2021, translation firm Nuanxed [ https://www.nuanxed.com/ ] works mostly on translating commercial fiction between European languages, using a hybrid process that includes AI tools before, during, and after translation. They pass savings onto the publishers while still paying a good market rate to human translators. Carlberg said, “Most publishers we start working with are very skeptical to the way we are working but realize once they’ve tried it, the quality is good, and the readers really like it.” And the authors also like it, he added. Carlberg’s firm is growing fast, and he’s hearing from more translators who want to work with Nuanxed. He says their big value add is that they pass every translation through the appropriate “cultural lens” and make sure the work is coherent throughout. Yes, there are still problems and valid fears. Some writers fear that AI use will pollute the market (as it’s doing now) and lead to various types of AI fraud—the kind of thing that happened to me. [ https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/ ]Some form of this fraud has existed for as long as am*zon KDP or digital publishing has existed, only it’s more prevalent now and easy to execute with AI tools. I sometimes get upset about the pollution as well and what it might mean for writers and publishers over the long term. But I’m hoping we’ll also gain methods of filtering the garbage just as we have in the past. The other concern is that AI-generated work will be less creative and interesting in the long run, since it tends to generate what’s rather average or what’s already dominant in the culture. For example, a recent study [ https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/experiment-finds-ai-boosts-creativity-individually-but-lowers-it-collectively/?guccounter=1 ] showed that AI could boost creativity individually, but it lowers creativity collectively. (A friend of mine who reads a lot of genre fiction that’s heavily AI-assisted or AI-generated said she’s read five novels recently all featuring a main character named “Jaxon.”) That’s what AI does. Revert to the mean or what’s most predictable. I expect more progress and more tools that modify these predictable outcomes when they’re not desirable for the user or the output. I’ll close with the words of The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson:[ https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/11/24196396/the-atlantic-openai-licensing-deal-ai-news-journalism-web-future-decoder-podcasts ] AI is this rainstorm, or it’s this hurricane, and it’s coming towards our industry, right? It’s tempting to just go out and be like, “Oh my God, there’s a hurricane that’s coming,” and I’m angry about that. But what you really want to do is, it’s a rainstorm, you want to put on a raincoat and put on an umbrella. If you’re a farmer, you want to figure out what new crops to plant. You want to prepare and deal with it. And so my job is to try to separate the fear of what might happen and work as hard as I can for the best possible outcome, knowing that because I have done a deal with an AI company, people will be angry because AI could be a very bad thing, and so there’s this association. But regardless, I have to try to do what is best for The Atlantic and for the industry. url https://janefriedman.com/like-it-or-not-publishers-are-licensing-material-for-ai-training-and-using-ai-themselves/

cool @Troy

topics 1) The sixtieth of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. Dates: astrology , astronomy, appllo IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Happy Belated Fathers Day ; How the Boy and the Heron exposed the USA's problem with animation ; Skettel trailer from Moon Ferguson ; Tarustrian ; Kobo 2024 romcom challenge ; Metallurgy+misconceptions ; Playing the odds by MVMedia URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/07/14/2024-rmnewsletter.html

@Troy I apologize , I comprehend fully well, the levers of opportunity have immense value. I should had been more verbose and said, creating engaging content is what one can always control , effective discoverability sadly, is not controllable by all.

My pleasure @Troy I it takes a village

Despite the results of the Lee & Low Books 2023 survey, revealing that 72.5% of the publishing industry predominantly identified as white, Literary Agents of Change and I strive to continue making agenting and publishing more accessible to marginalized communities. To aid this effort, we launched the Equity Directory in February 2024 to provide BIPOC authors and editors with a database of BIPOC agents. In a recent interview with Poets & Writers, Inc., vice president of LAoC Katie Kotchman and I shared the impact of the Equity Directory, as well as the success rate of BIPOC agents through mentorship programs that give rising agents the chance to learn from agenting. You can read the full interview here: https://www.pw.org/content/connecting_writers_to_agents_of_color You can access the Equity Directory database here: https://www.equitydirectory.org/ referral https://www.linkedin.com/posts/regina-brooks_poets-writers-equity-directory-interview-activity-7217540246136045570-nga_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

@TroyI saw the new format on your blog, looks fine to me, but I admit, my agenda is to be more interesting and creative on aalbc, at the end of the day, content that engages people is key. thanks for sharing

topics The fifty-ninth of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. Mushroom perspective Horror synth Mister Mxyzptlk's Mysterious Mix Up Dates : happy anniversary to Bertie the fastest tortoise plus Charlotte's Web IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Black Butterfly from Deniece Williams ; The Glassworker ; African Doers ; Finding Your Roots exceptions ; Space Funk ; Bruce Lee exercises ; writer Angela Bofil URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/07/07/2024-rmnewsletter.html

well @aka Contrarian I hope you are around but around healthy I don't know about the usa government, but in the end, all governments in humanity get what the people under them lead themselves to

Today the earth is farthest from the sun and will get closer and closer on its elliptical orbit till the perihelion in early january

I am kidding. But since @Troy seems to enjoy sharing generated content. I figure I will place this in culture. For a laugh https://www.udio.com/songs/jujrXW7gaRmmHvag7ojqXh soulless lyrics Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me. I need Thy presence every passing hour; What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power? Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me. I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness; Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory? I triumph still, if Thou abide with me. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies; Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O Lord, In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me. abide with me.