Guild certified?

Continuing this week’s Missed Points theme.

The Authors Guild offers a ‘bug’ that you can place on your work to certify no use of AI. Something like this is certainly needed. After reading I decided regretfully that it isn’t the right something.

1. Commercially, I don’t need it because I’ve already certified to my publisher. They hold the copyright, and they have a straightforward mercenary interest in keeping their supply chain free from stolen goods. I understand, appreciate, and agree.

2. Spiritually, I’d be diluting my own pride of authorship by using this particular service. Their verification is NOT PHYSICAL, not by PAPER MAIL. They use an online thingamajig that claims to be better than other online thingamajigs. Sorry, no online service will do.

If you want to verify that a PHYSICAL HUMAN is responding, you need to get PHYSICAL. No online method can possibly work. Every online method is corrupted by fucking definition. Pew Poll is doing it right.

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Parallel to the Hudson failsafe brakes. Hydraulic brakes are convenient and smooth but corruptible. Fluid can leak, boil, or gather so much dust that it doesn’t flow. When fluid fails you’re in trouble, usually without any warning. Hudson’s system automatically applied the cable-driven parking brake as soon as the pedal dropped below a certain height. Nobody ever copied Hudson’s system. Much later the feds required a second hydraulic loop. NOT good enough. If the fluid is hot and boiling, or full of dust, both loops are prone to fail. You need a MORE PHYSICAL reserve system.