Comments on: What Actually Scares Me About AI

By: Alicia McCalla

Alicia McCalla — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:14:38 +0000

In reply to Matthew Rapaport. Honestly, most authors don’t have this foundational piece in place, which is why AI struggles to answer basic questions about their work accurately.

By: Alicia McCalla

Alicia McCalla — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:26 +0000

In reply to Nancy Gardner. Yay! 🎉 sounds perfect 🤩

By: Matthew Rapaport

Matthew Rapaport — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:01:12 +0000

Ok, but it seems natural to list your books, descriptions, and links to them on Amazon (at least) on your blog, or as a guest post on someone else's blog--or both. Doesn't every author do this somewhere on the net?

By: Nancy Gardner

Nancy Gardner — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:13:25 +0000

Hi Alicia, I followed your instructions and found my one lonely book. Thanks!

By: Alicia McCalla

Alicia McCalla — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:07:00 +0000

In reply to Richard Leonard. Your comments are 💯. Thank you for posting. I appreciate the perspective. Since authors can’t control AI training data, controlling our own authoritative sources as much as we can is the most practical path forward. ❤️

By: Richard Leonard

Richard Leonard — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:15:18 +0000

"And it too[k] about 72-hours until the hallucinations were gone." This is interesting. I know the AI is not live but did wonder how often it updates itself. I write fiction as a hobby, software engineering pays the bills. I actually worked in AI in the mid 90's and I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it. If using AI to gather information, ALWAYS check its output against non-AI sources (this practice almost makes AI redundant). The thing that scares me the most is: 1. We don't know what it's been trained with. 2. The creators most likely don't know exactly what's it been trained with 3. AI's are all potentially training on other AI output, essentially cannibalizing themselves. 4. Supervision of training data is questionable at best.

By: Alicia McCalla

Alicia McCalla — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 02:03:10 +0000

In reply to Bernadette. Agreed 👍🏾! Thanks for your thoughts.

By: Alicia McCalla

Alicia McCalla — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 02:02:44 +0000

In reply to Jennifer Tooker. Perfect 🤩 I’m glad AI was able to get a lot of your information correct. Probably for your academic credentials, create an official discovery bibliography so they will start showing up.

By: Alicia McCalla

Alicia McCalla — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 02:00:06 +0000

In reply to Sue Simonich. Yes! Exactly 💜 Thanks for your comments.

By: Bernadette

Bernadette — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:52:12 +0000

loved this. writers feed AI. we should feed it the good stuff.