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Hello, all. AI generated art is nearly worthless at its very best. More frequently, it is completely worthless, or worse. It will absolutely hallucinate, or “deliberately” get things wrong. Beyond putting gibberish on signs of all kinds, it just naturally screws things up. People don’t match the descriptions you give it. Cars, as in real, actual cars where you could Google pictures of real ones, it screws them up, and badly. Honestly, a better “bribe” would be to not generate AI art. Cheers!

I stopped looking back at the Holiday 2025 anthology like a month ago, so it’s very fortunate that @Thundercloud sent me an email to let me know he left a review for Meaningful Gifts! And believe me, that was something I was concerned about! 😄 I’ve always felt that exposition, properly delivered, can be very engaging and fun, but a lot of the time the reader gets bored, so I did my best to make sure that information was delivered in a way that both didn’t overwhelm the reader, and also that didn’t feel so much like they were having things explained to them, so much as that they were kind of seeing beats of the siblings’ story, if in a past tense kind of way. Wow! Thank you so much! I can’t remember how long I spent on that, but I spent a lot of time trying to make it as good as I could, so I’m really happy it paid off! And thank you again! I’d been thinking about posting it on its own, so that may have been the final nudge I needed! I feel bad for those who’ve already read and reviewed it, but maybe it’d be worth a reread when I post it. 😅 I’m not sure when I’ll have the next thing ready for posting, but I’ll keep chipping away at it! Even if it’s only a little at a time, any progress is progress!

Could’ve been a legit account that got hacked. AFAIK, Discord’s pretty responsive to complaints. As to art, find a real artist (there’s likely websites for that), or figure out chat GPT yourself.

TBH, the flattery can be nice. The last one I got on AO3… the spammer took a moment to read the chapter (or had AI do it), And according to what I’ve read, the request to other websites for comms, will eventually lead to $$ demands. Not sure if they *actually* produce AI generated art or not, but $$ and fanfiction mix as well as gasoline/matches .

They just spam that crap all over. I feel bad for vulnerable users who might think it is genuine and get scammed :(