the world as we know it is changing rapidly.

I wrote my first book review about Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, when I was 17. It was written on an index card and pinned to a brown shelf just below eye level, in a little independent bookstore in northern NJ.

During the day, the shoppers would trickle into the store. An older woman, a mom with a stroller, a guy with curly dark hair and a 2-door Nissan. They’d shuffle in through the front door, turn right, and stop in front of that small, taped-to-the-shelf index card, to read my book review.

Some of them would pull a copy of Fast Food Nation off the shelf to buy.  Instead of no sales, we were selling copy after copy. The review itself must’ve been 6-7 sentences max, given the size of the index card, and I’d trade a rare book to read what it said, today.

I must’ve made a case.

I had no idea, of course, that twenty years later, I’d be a writer (and copywriter) who was charging $5,000+ for 20 pages of compelling, original work. All I knew was the new thrill of my words being read.

something I wrote might change a mind; might spark a feeling.

Those were certainly different times, as there was no debate about whether or not I used a Large Language Model (like ChatGPT or Claude) to generate that review, a topic that we’ll turn over thoroughly, together.

Back then, there was no way to fake writing. You were either good at it, or you were asking someone like me to help you write your paper in the 11th hour.

Hey, it’s Jillian Anderson —

What you just read is a piece of writing from my second book project.

This next project focuses on the intersection between Big Tech and writing.

We don’t have to go quie — oh wait I can’t say that word anymore or else you’ll think I used “AI” here (I’d neverrrr).

—> Did you know “artificial intelligence” doesn’t even exist?

—> That we’re being lied to?

—> That we’re swimming in the manipulative branding, marketing, and PR that these mega corporations are rolling out, daily?

—> That these mega corporations have packaged up “AI” as the inevitable future, when it’s not?

I’m tired of it. I don’t like being lied to.

I’ve been following and studying the lawsuits all year.

This is a well-orchestrated multi-pronged attack on cognition, literacy, and attention span.

And I’m aiming to lay out the facts and to give other creative people a language of resistance.

Enter your name + email below to be the first to know when the book is ready for early readers.

I’ll also send you my best, print-worthy writing, sporadically.

My communication(s) promise: this is a promo free zone, FR. No ads. Nothing like that. Just my best writing.

This is for you if you:

  • value unbiased investigative journalism

  • don’t want any more “AI” synthetic text to hit your inbox (or your brain)

  • just want to read my best writing (without any ads)

  • are overwhelmed with all the conflicting opinions about “AI”

  • care about the grounded, thoughtful exchange of ideas (human-human).

Not familiar with me?

I’m a writer’s writer who also runs a small communications company.

I’ve been out here since 2015 and I’m not afraid to call it as I see it: we have never before crossed this line in history.

The written word has never before been infiltrated by ‘synthetic text’ like this.

What we had prior to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic building their tech on the stolen work of authors — my people — is gone.

We are in an entirely new period in history.

What can we do?

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AI-Policy: Large Language Models (“AI”) are deadbeat probability machines that don’t ‘write.’ They spew DEAD synthetic text. If you see an em dash, it’s mine. Whatever words you see (anywhere I publish), they’re mine. I’m never gonna use a deadbeat probability machine to generate text. I don’t use LLMs in any part of my creative process. I know what’s at stake here.

Have a Q? Email us at hello@jillian-anderson.com and we’ll be right with you.