Statement on AI / LLMs
Without in any way limiting the author’s and his publisher’s exclusive rights under copyright, it is expressly prohibited to use any of the author’s works (including books, articles, or the contents of any website, including but not limited to this one, which are published under the names of either Rob Boffard or Jackson Ford) to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text. The author reserves all rights to license uses of his works across any platforms.
In addition, it is expressly prohibited to upload any part of any of this author’s work to any generative AI programs (including but not limited to Meta, ChatGPT, etc).
Any violation of these rights are infringing on copyright law and copyrights held by the author and his publisher, and may be subject to prosecution, not including the ongoing class action lawsuit in Kadrey v. Meta – of which the author is already included.
The author also asks that no one create AI-generated fan-art, fanfiction, or any kind of material, based on or inspired by his works. Any emails containing such “art” will be deleted unread.
He also declines to knowingly blurb or support any books that were written, in part or as a whole, with generative AI. The waters here can be murky, but if any text in the book was not written by a human, and instead was written by a machine/LLM, then he has no interest in reading it, or anything that the author ever writes.
On a more personal note: Art is human expression created by human hands. That matters to me, and that will always matter to me, so I will give no quarter to machine-generated slop. That is my ongoing stance.
I stole this statement from my buddy Jeremy Szal. I didn’t ask permission but he gave it anyway because he’s dope like that.