Animal Rights Group fires up over animal exploitation controversy.
Dang it all, I should've realised getting gorillas to do the hard graft for me was going to rub people up the wrong way.
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'Intellectual theft'. Really!?
"Primate rights groups are sounding alarms over MONUMENTAL, arguing that the book’s use of gorilla cognition and behaviour, filtered through artificial intelligence, constitutes a new form of species exploitation. The author has denied wrongdoing, calling the project a “tribute, not a theft.”
Protesters converge at zoo
"CPAES descended upon Auckland zoo today in protest against a book allegedly written by coercing primates to contribute to the editorial content."
I'm like, whatever. No dramas.
Authors Against AI protest against Monumental at Auckland Writers Festival
A group of anti-AI activists storm AWF, protesting about AI being the mother of all evils if used to write books and how real authors shouldn't touch it as it's going to steal everyones jobs and stuff. Feels like they just gave me free publicity though, so thanks I guess.
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Conspiracy Theorists pile in over Deep Fake deception.
Reddit blew up with accusations of manufactured mischief after videos emerged purporting to show historical figures with copies of Monumental.
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Reddit r/conspiracy post: 11,000 view