Holly Rhiannon

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Montréal is a city of contrasts. Stone churches cast shadows over modern galleries. The voices of poets echo in both French and English. From the storied streets of Mile End to the quiet study halls of McGill, Montréal’s literary history is as complex and compelling as the city itself.

Large language models are harvesting written content across the internet, and most writers have no idea their novels and articles are being used this way. The scale is staggering. ChatGPT alone was trained on 300 billion words. To put that in perspective, if you wrote 1,000 words every single day, it would take you roughly 2,740 years to reach just one billion words. The question every writer should be asking is: where did all those words come from?