This just in … AI developing targeted spam for authors is a goddam nightmare.

You can develop an ear for it pretty quickly — the language it employs has its own unique blandness to it.  But, because I am often slow on the uptake, I thought these flattering e-mails were legit.  (And it was a heady feeling to suddenly discover mysterious critics praising some very specific aspects of my writing from more than a decade ago.)

Now the problem is the frequency of these e-mails themselves.  Maybe it’s just and end-of-the-year thing, but I got two in the last two hours, and they have a knack for fooling spam filters.

We never got the Westworld hotbots or Ron Moore’s chic, uber-cool cylons, but technology gave us this shit?  We got robbed.

Why does everything have to be awful?  Sorry.  I’m in a mood.