Anne Bogel

And I just really hope you all continue to find it a really useful tool.

And like my friend Nikki said, a gateway to reliable reading joy.

And I hadn't planned to talk about our philosophy, not just philosophy, but like guidelines or

laws about artificial intelligence that we have for our team, but it really just plays right into our team core value of trust.

We want to be honest and forthright and dependable in our content and its delivery.

And

We are known and we've worked hard to be known for our taste, whether or not you think it's good taste, I think you know it's my taste, and for our reliability in bringing news and opinions and ideas from the book world to you.

We really want to celebrate the written word and the people who create the books we love to read.

And we want you to know all these books are human selected.

We don't use generative AI, no chat GPT, no Claude, no Gemini.

No algorithms are picking these books.

No, any computers.

No, I mean, I'm using my MacBook.

Okay.

But like machines are not writing our blurbs.

We don't use digital tools to choose books for our guests or for our blog, like in any way and not for the summer reading guide either.

All our work is our own.

And this is the time-consuming, old-fashioned way.

And y'all, it kills me to then see our stuff turned around and copied verbatim.

And then this is one of the reasons I'm not on Instagram anymore.