So I'm feeling helpless here. Because AI has made it absolutely impossible to be an indie author because there are SO MANY 'authors' generating slop and getting sales. AND there are so many authors using AI for cover art. It's RIDICULOUS how many covers are AI generated.
And even though I am vehemently against AI and don't use it, because it was trained on Ao3, it was trained on my actual writing, which means my em dashes and oxford commas make me LOOK like I'm using AI when I'm not, but people are calling out authors all the time for being AI when they use those things, so it's disheartening. All the while, I'm just trying to write my monster fucker books and make money on royalties because our Electric is always late and about to be turned off and my spouse is getting auto rejected from every job he applies for by an AI program (that every company uses to scan new resumes) and honestly it's looking bleak, guys. It's very very very bleak.
But I'm going to make cookies today, and I am choosing to hold that as a high point right now.















