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Worldcon will detail by Tuesday exactly how ChatGPT was used in this panelists selection process, so I will mostly hold off on comment until then. Here's the thing though, any time a con is like 'think of our poor volunteers' you know bullshit is up. Either the Seattle crew had the people to be doing this work, and who wanted to do this work, or they didn't. If they didn't, why the fuck did they compete for this bid? And if they do, and are not giving those volunteers the work to do... that's worse.
They may still have time to fix their shit, but right now it's like, wtf? Like ignore the AI issues for a sec. Picking panelists is the good shit. It's the fun, social, hang out with people with your same hobby, shape the cool stuff that will happen at the con, part of con running. You want people who enjoy that work to be working on your con, being social, community building among them, and happy. You do not want to reduce these volunteer hours. If you want a strong community of con runners in your city, pulling their hours because you are using AI is a slap in the face to people wanting to work and hang out. It makes people feel bad and not valued. Let people hang out and do some work and then throw them a pizza party about it.
Ignore using the Anti-Minority Bias Machine That Likes to Hallucinate issues for a moment, from a conrunner POV this is just downright them punching their own community in the face.
Wait, I was going to wait until Tuesday and more deets, but, oops. Anyway, if they don't have enough staff to be running this con that's bad. If they aren't, that's worse.
They may still have time to fix their shit, but right now it's like, wtf? Like ignore the AI issues for a sec. Picking panelists is the good shit. It's the fun, social, hang out with people with your same hobby, shape the cool stuff that will happen at the con, part of con running. You want people who enjoy that work to be working on your con, being social, community building among them, and happy. You do not want to reduce these volunteer hours. If you want a strong community of con runners in your city, pulling their hours because you are using AI is a slap in the face to people wanting to work and hang out. It makes people feel bad and not valued. Let people hang out and do some work and then throw them a pizza party about it.
Ignore using the Anti-Minority Bias Machine That Likes to Hallucinate issues for a moment, from a conrunner POV this is just downright them punching their own community in the face.
Wait, I was going to wait until Tuesday and more deets, but, oops. Anyway, if they don't have enough staff to be running this con that's bad. If they aren't, that's worse.
