Are novelists who worry about the rise of AI really ‘classist and ableist’?

Er … what? Is AI working-class now? Or did someone in the managerial class fire up ChatGPT and prompt it to weaponise social justice language in defence of a technology that has been accused of stealing from artists and writers (by training itself using their work without compensating them) and is now making the rich richer? This weird statement sparked a lot of anger and four members of NaNoWriMo’s writers board stepped down in protest. When she quit, bestselling author Maureen Johnson urged other writers to “beware – your work on their platform is almost certainly going to be used to train AI”.