Authors using AI art on your covers, you're cutting off your own leg.

I'm not even talking about the accusations of 'thief' that you're going to get. Let's set that aside.

I'm talking about the price you're paying in reputation and marketability to save maybe $1000.

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Bryce O'Connor One small thing to add - workers at bookstores despise books with AI generated covers.

I know several people who work at bookstores. You know what they do to books with AI covers?

1) They don't recommend them to customers
2) They organize shelves to put your book out of sight

Arron Johnson Bryce O'Connor Another good reason to avoid bookstores.
I won't pay a premium so a minwage drone can editorialize.

Maggie Leber Arron Johnson Bryce O'Connor And I'm sure the bookstore's owners will be pleased to know their employees are censoring their own stock and potentially damaging the stores sales. 🙄

BattleRaven c/o Dave Maggie Leber Arron Johnson Bryce O'Connor As if there's a future for bookstores, without principled customers who prefer things created by actual humans - instead of random stuff generated by a program that can be used by anyone, anywhere.

Those owners would be wise to support what their personnel is, apparently, doing.