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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gban007" data-source="post: 9880333" data-attributes="member: 56488">So your argument you're making is that your prediction years ago about potential bans wasnt about hurting small publishers that were active at the time, but small publishers that were either going to enter the market or change their publishing to make use of AI and scale up?And so your prediction of what would happen could have also been stuff the people you know could have foreseen, or you could have advised them, not to go down that road?As now what seems to be the case is going back to pre 2023 sort of scenario, where small players will do just as well as they were doing before, as will big players, so not great shift away from small publishers, just denying them a potential route they thought they could go down by bypassing a cost, ethically or not?As it stands, like others in this thread, Im glad Foundry is making this change, and think it is good if small publishers are having to exit if they can only publish by using AI generated content.  I would like if Amazon banned AI generated ebooks, rather than seeming to encourage it, as while thousands more books and creators may now be selling, those who dont use AI are harder to find and likely selling less now.</blockquote>