Desiderius Price Posted 21 hours ago Report Posted 21 hours ago Sigh, the “comic drawing offer” has hit my WIP Milliways story (you know, the one I hastily wrote to test out the new-story feature). TBH, it seemed very upbeat on the praise to such a short drabble. Quote
BronxWench Posted 21 hours ago Report Posted 21 hours ago Did you delete it, or do you want me to take care of that? Quote
Desiderius Price Posted 21 hours ago Author Report Posted 21 hours ago 6 minutes ago, BronxWench said: Did you delete it, or do you want me to take care of that? Be nice if you did (or I’d have to fire up the password manager to get my archive password). Figured it best to report, let you ban the user/IP. Quote
JayDee Posted 9 hours ago Report Posted 9 hours ago They just spam that crap all over. I feel bad for vulnerable users who might think it is genuine and get scammed :( BronxWench and Desiderius Price 2 Quote
Desiderius Price Posted 7 hours ago Author Report Posted 7 hours ago 1 hour ago, JayDee said: They just spam that crap all over. I feel bad for vulnerable users who might think it is genuine and get scammed 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 . BronxWench and JayDee 2 Quote
BronxWench Posted 3 hours ago Report Posted 3 hours ago After poking around a bit, this is a big issue on some other archives as well. I did check Discord for that person’s handle, and got nothing, which should be the first red flag for anyone thinking about an offer like that. The only thing we can do is to remind everyone to be ever so paranoid about offers that sound too good to be true. Real artists will never spam review boards looking for work. JayDee 1 Quote
Desiderius Price Posted 1 hour ago Author Report Posted 1 hour ago 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. JayDee 1 Quote
JayDee Posted 1 hour ago Report Posted 1 hour ago I definitely had very similar reviews on my two ff net stories years ago, the scam’s gonna be getting old enough to drink soon. Quote
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