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00:00It's money taken out of my pocket and the pocket of all authors, and when you consider
00:06that the average income for an author in the UK is about £7,500 a year, it actually, every
00:13penny really matters. And so it's something that is really serious and really infuriating
00:21for authors, but also just a threat, a threat to this profession, even being able to continue
00:26to exist. We are, I think, at genuine risk of not having any books for people to actually
00:33pirate, at least not written by humans. I've devoted my whole life to this craft and to
00:39being the best writer that I can be, and the thought that somebody in Silicon Valley or
00:47wherever is taking that work to produce identikit fake AI versions of it is, yeah, it's upsetting.
00:58I think AI has so many benefits in certain fields. You know, if you're talking about
01:04like medical research, breakthroughs in stuff like that, then it's got the potential to
01:09be incredibly useful. And I think what needs to happen is we really need to give it some
01:17boundaries before it totally takes over.