I also think if we all agree we are underpaid it's worse to accept such a "small" payout instead of using funds to fight for large scale structural change

here's their statement www.writersunion.ca/news/writers...

you can say no. you can say, this is not enough. you can say, I don't care that AI is everywhere, that there are those that think it is inevitable. it isn't. you are bankrupting the future, you are bankrupting my students and peers, when you should be fighting. I get it now

AI has already used marginalized writers' works, so that big publishers, staffed by countless wh*te people, can use us? I am shaking that this is okay for the union. that this racial injustice is okay, too

I'm the one on the ground teaching students who are frequently stunted by their reliance on AI, who lack literacy, who could look to us published writers for leadership and guidance and still be taught the value of protecting our own voices

we should be taking these AI owners to court for our works that have already been used, not making it okay to take more under some 'acceptable' use. you don't get it, do you? what AI will be taught from our work will be more than what we can monetize and 'fairly' compensate

AI is being shoved into everything. sure. but acting like we have no choice but to let it, and that we should take our dues and our royalties for it, is defeatist and morally unjust to be okay with it. first publishing gatekeeps us, and now only the published get the reparations

take your land acknowledgements out of your website if you don't mean them. I am ashamed to be a member of an organization that will tell us writers are underpaid and then turn around and throw us under the bus because there's 'no use' fighting environmentally exploitative tech

they should be ashamed. we should not be accepted short-term scraps in favour of lasting, long-term harm. forget how AI systems use water as a coolant for these machines, in a country where water is stolen and controlled, and how this is environmentally devastating

man everyone's been so busy, this will take me a minute. ty!!!

I didn't know this was where y'all went but time to catch up, lol. hope you're safe and well.

hiiii I just got here, pls add <3