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AI, Writers, Follow the Money & the Rip-off of Writers

by LVP
The issue of AI for workers and particularly writers was the focus of a panel at the San Francisco Library on 12/13/25. Edward Basbrouck with the National Writers Union NWU reported on AI and what it means particularly for writers
The issue of AI for workers and particularly writers was the focus of a panel at the San Francisco Library on 12/13/25. Edward Basbrouck ...
The development of AI has been existential in the threat it is to the future of writers, muscians, actors and many other professions, crafts and work. Edward Hasbrouck with the National Writers Union NWU and the NWU Working Group on Generative AI and IFJ Authors Rights Experts Group. He has been writing and studying what AI is and how it is being used to steal the labor of workers and destroy not only writers but millions of other workers.

This panel was part of a series of panel sponsored by WorkWeek, LaborFest.net, Labornet and the San Francisco Public Library which took place on 12/13/25.

Additional Media:

AI, Labor, Tech Workers & The Future Of SF & The World
https://youtu.be/aizaKTB9eVo

AI, Labor & The Commodification of Education For Profits & Control
https://youtu.be/2F3lm5t0Wko

AI Destroying Workers, Union Jobs & Future:
https://youtu.be/ckgpV5H_j30

Additional Information:
Edward Hasbrouck Link
https://hasbrouck.org
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002812.html

WorkWeek
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio
Labor Video Project
http://www.labormedia.net
§AI Destroying Writers
by LVP
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AI is being used by the big tech to destroy writers and artists throughout the world
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The destruction of the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA and other writers is an existential risk and Hasbrouck points out who is benefiting from this theft of intellectual property.
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