I won't bore you by telling you a story you've heard before. This isn't hand-wringing about an individual author's ethical issues—this is an examination of what brought us here.

In this episode, I talk about:

• The breakdown in the rules about AI between trad and self publishing.
• How acquisition practices, especially those of the past several years, have led us to the current situation.
• How to protect yourself (to the degree it's possible).
• What we lose in our current approach to creation and what we could have if we bothered letting ourselves envision a different world.