It’s so weird watching writers shoot themselves in their own feet. We’ve been able to self-publish for a while, but suddenly, we can make our own beautiful covers and do thorough, high quality copy edits on our own.
AI has so much more to give writers than it’s ever taken away.
When I sell at events, I get so many compliments on my covers, and sure, some of the covers are still old copies from before my publisher dumped me, so they have art that was done by artists before the advent of AI…
But those aren’t the ones people are looking at when they give the compliments.
Universe: here are tools that let you illustrate your fiction, copy edit easily, turn it into music, & design toys based on your main characters
Writing communities: anyone who uses these tools is evil & must be shunned
Serious writers: busy making the best things of their life
One of the things I love about furry is that since it’s way down low among social hierarchies, there’s nothing to lose, and everyone just does what they actually want, unfettered by conformity.
Which also pretty much captures why furry couldn’t stop me from using AI.
When the furry community wants to sound fancy they use the word anthropomorphic. It’s a whole subculture devoted to anthropomorphizing things.
But suddenly when computers were able to play along, the community got all “but not like that!”