So where are the pictures of this new mystery book?

(That's me drawing my book. I've really changed over the years.)

Good question, convenient imaginary interlocutor. 

In the age of AI, when Google and Meta scrape everything online to feed their insatiable AI beast, which gobbles information to grow ever larger and more formidable, is it a good idea to put anything, personal or professional, online? 

It's a conundrum. You need to promote, but to promote exposes your work to being eaten by the AI.

AI is the first form of (virtual) 'life' that feeds on information to grow. For some reason, it triggers a connection in my mind to an old Star Trek episode with a monster that fed on emotions. 

I can't seem to find the place in Instagram to turn off the AI training, it's such a convoluted tunnel and the screens I see eventually don't match the instructions. So... I'm just not going to be posting on social media much anymore.

For my wondrous random thought blog, I intend to keep it light, post little, more a hint than a full set of material. 

Look, a hint! Or is that showing too much?!?

If AI keeps improving at an exponential rate (a dubious proposition but nevertheless possible) it will eventually surpass us, at which point what I do will be obsolete whether it's trained on my crap or not. It'll produce material better than the greatest human writer, far far ahead of anything I'm capable of.

I'm betting it won't, that it'll hit a ceiling, at least for awhile, until new models and quantum computing eventually put AI over the top. 

That'll hopefully leave me time to pump out at least a few more books before they take me out behind the barn.