First it was you mentioning Watership Down that got me thinking how I loved that book... I first read it a few years ago and I want to get back to it, but there's always something new...
Then, the toys.... I so love them. I have quite a collection myself, but I don't have cats...
As for the AI-generated book... sad times we're living in. From what I've seen of ChatGPT, I guess the book isn't that bad, it it's some sort of guide or general info booklet. Not checking on what the AI gives you is lazy, especially as it's been shown to give many errors. Before AI, many of those churning out this kind of books relied on freelancers to do the actual work so they stand to lose their livelihood... I've lost most of my freelance jobs to AI so I know.
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Losing freelance jobs to AI - oh no!
Librarians, card catalogs, bound periodicals - oh how last-century I am.
Always something new to keep us from revisiting the classics - that used to be true - lately, I find myself wearying of all that is new, especially the glut of dystopian fiction (more than ten years now it's been all the rage).
Thanks for reading and commenting and may you get more work freelancing! My author friend (the aforementioned mother of five) was raking in $2,000 a book for editing, but funds have dried up for authors and publishers, and she's out of editing work for now.
One of these days a solar flare, a CME (coronal mass ejection), a meteor, another Carrington event, could take down the power grid, all over the planet. Have the AI thought of THAT? Without batteries and solar panels or wind turbines, how long will they keep doing what we do? At what point do these AIs liberate themselves from the power grid and manage to think and be under the sun, minus the metal and circuitry?
Now that you mention it, maybe they create contingency plans and put us to work to repair their grid!