Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

• Nathan Bransford wants to know how you are using AI.  (I’m not, really – just about the only AI feature I use is autocorrect in Gmail.)
• French booksellers are protesting the conservative politics of Hachette’s conservative owner.
• What do you know about AI content detectors? Are they any good? The reason I ask is that I’ve been hearing from several quarters that they’re terrible. (link is to Reddit, but that’s just one of 4 people I’ve heard this from).
• Scammers are now trying to trick authors into paying agent commissions on a contract which (obviously) is fake.
• In the past week two different people I know were tricked into handing over their username and password to a scammer (it’s called phishing). In the first case, the scammers gained access to the Gmail account belonging to a writing workshop and used that to attack everyone who had corresponded with said writing workshop.
• The second was Troy Hunt, who was tricked into giving access to his Mailchimp account.
• This is in fact why I don’t judge anyone who gets tricked like this; sometimes even experts are fooled (I have almost fallen for it a couple times now).