u/firestorm0108

To prefrence, I do not want ai anywhere in my project, this includes the artwork. How others view ai is of no consequence to me, my personal opinion is it should hold no merrit in creative circles.

Anywho, with that out of the way.

I am making a website and publishing my first book (roughly at the same time) my friend already does web design so sorting out the website is sorted but I thought it would be good to look into artists now rather then get close to the publishing date and be behind.

I've heard Fivver can be a very very mixed bag so wasn't sure if there were some more trust worthy sights.

I am fairly anti-ai in my personal use.

As an author I believe part of what makes writing have it's depth is in the words themselves and how you as the writer choose to use them. Many who use ai get the ai to choose those words, or have the ai try to 'correct' their wordage with something better. Short of true grammatical mistakes I'd argue there isn't really true 'improvement' to be had in that way since only you know how you want your scene to truly feel, ai wont, at best it can guess.

I have other reasons but that isn't the point of this post.

As someone who will never use it in my creative endevors, I also do not plan to attack others who do. However I would still like to hear from them and see what their reasonings are and have a civil conversation if possible. Since their are true reasonings and facts for both sides.

Ai is bad for local ecosystems and people near data centers, it is also true that analytical ai when used properly will do amazing things in medical fields.

Am I perfect? No. I crossed paths with Witty and her logic almost felt like it was intended to draw me into an argument.

However this sub and most all ai subs pro or against feel like all they are is screaming with one another while there isn't actually much dialogue happening.

How do we expect to be understood or to understand others if all that is happening is sharing memes meant to antagonise or just being hostile.

When I first read that Luke "still had friends in camp" I was always kind of curious on who it would be since I assumed it would be someone we'd met relatively early on. (my first mistake)

Then we met a goddess who was consistently, subconciously, shapeshifting in book 3 (Aphrodite). My brain thought "oh, someone with shapeshifting powers would make a great spy" since if you're a spy you probably wouldn't tell anyone you could, especially if you plan to use it to do sneaky things.

I realise now it was somewhat of a pointless overcomplication in my own reading that I was just trying to figure it out in my 12/13 year old brain but it made sense to me.

But yeah, I was curious if anyone else had thoughts like this.

Currently querying book 1 and writing book 2 and no matter how much I distract myself the waiting months on end to more then likely get rejected is driving me insane.

To those who loved the show:

What's something you disliked about it?

To those who hated it:

What's something you liked about it?