The leaders of America’s biggest AI-focused companies—including Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Inflection AI, and OpenAI—met with President Biden on Friday, committing to continue to do what they were already doing to make AI safe, per their own definitions of safety.

The advent of large language models like ChatGPT crystallizes the particular threats writers face; while LLMs can’t replace the humanity necessary for good reporting, fiction and poetry, they can flood the internet with mediocre content that could make higher quality work even less marketable than it already is—if we, the reading public, let them.

“Being a plus sized influencer means being constantly ridiculed for being fat,” said Kiera Wilson, a cultural writer and graduate student in intermediality at the University of Edinburgh.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the weekend called for enhanced collaboration between the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence development.

Technology featured heavily at last weekend’s G7 meetings. The Hiroshima Leaders’ Communiqué, named for the G7 host city, recognized the need to “take stock” on generative AI, which it calls “increasingly prominent across countries and sectors.”