Do You Ever Get a Second Chance With Your First Agent?
A Q&A Thursday
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K asks: I'm getting ready to query, and I'd prefer that my query and sample pages not be run through public facing AI, even if it helps overwhelmed agents and agent interns get through the slush faster. I'm not saying I believe this is a rampant practice, but to someone, somewhere, it's bound to be tempting. I also think I'm doing a good job of identifying professional agents who wouldn't do this, but, still... Would it be insulting to receive a query letter and pages with language at the bottom similar to the Authors Guild anti-AI contract language? Part of me thinks it's a savvy idea, and the slightly larger part thinks I'll just be offending the agents who weren't going to put my work through AI anyway and have no effect on those who would, since I can't exactly do anything about, even if I could prove it.
Tbh, I wouldn't worry at all about offending anyone. Agents, of all people,
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