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And if anyone wants an https-happy Lurker's Guide... I *might* be able to help.

I guarantee that slipping the pitch to people while they were on panels and couldn't get away was something the AI suggested.

Anyone who looked at the paper is now being reported as being "in talks" with said person about the collaboration to try and rope other writers in.

7. DON'T BE THIS PERSON. If you see an author you like/respect/have somehow heard of at a con (or anywhere else), don't try to rope them into business then and there; they're busy and not there for your convenience. At most, ask them (BRIEFLY) who their agent is so you can route the proposal there.

By Sunday, the person was no longer on the list of panel participants and did not show up to the panel they were slated to moderate. (The questions they sent ahead of time to the other panelists were more AI-generated garbage, naturally.)

It's pure anecdata, but I overheard a conversation wherein someone who sounds like Random was asked to leave, so that may well have happened.

If you're going to the "effort" of having AI come up with your ideas, you might as well have it "write" it too.

There is a good chance they asked a chat bot how to get their idea noticed and it told them to do this.

So it’s “I’ve got an idea, you can write it and we’ll split the money 50/50” but they don’t even have a real idea?

Sounds like it's the same mentality. "I came up with the idea/came up with the prompt. That's the hard part! All you/the #genAI has left to do is the simple mechanical part of actually generating at least forty thousand words!"

this is the same policy @straczynski.bsky.social has. and imho it's solid.

This is what I thought of. It’s why authors generally don’t admit to reading fanfic in any official capacity bc they are laying down breadcrumbs for readers & if a fanficcer picks up that & expands in the same way the author always intended to go, it’s unfair to the author if accused of stealing