It's unbelievable how that campaign and even the hint of something like it here with internet mobs can obliterate the creative capacity of huge numbers of people. I write and make to understand things, and by example, I recently wrote about 12,000 words to get a yield of about 3,000 words of my best work. The stuff in that other 9,000 words will probably never see a screen again, but it had to come out to mine it for the single ideas and turns of phrase that become like library functions for dense, concise writing.

If you can't produce the raw material, you can't make anything new or good.

There’s a black mirror episode in the future about how LLMs trained on people’s discarded drafts start outing them for having disfavored opinions.

Maybe through people’s digital AI ghosts (AIs made from people’s content after they die) start spouting racist stuff.

So people are surprised to learn their friends and heroes were racist/capitalist/nickel back fans/etc

Ends up being a programming error that didn’t properly account for boundaries.

That’s the end of my expected story idea. But I best google and Microsoft are training off every character written, not just what makes it to your final 3,000.

Not giving a fuck is a superpower.