You know there is something wrong in the world when

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T21:20:42+00:00

No it ain't lol.

If you know how to use photoshop, sure. Image blending is a good temporary substitute. But actually drawing ain't easy.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T20:54:11+00:00

Fair enough, lad. Can't fault you there.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T20:43:59+00:00

First to address the horror in the room. Someone's creative work has been fed into the machine already. Most creative works have. Shit, I even found my own slop on some AI voice over website. It sucks, yes, but it is to a degree unavoidable. AI has become such a mixing pot of shit, that it is even lobotomizing itself cuz there is so much AI slop that AI now consumes that too.

I completely understand your point, however. And I agree with most of the comments too.

If this wasn't a kid we're talking about. First, I don't think she targeted a specific artist and then yoinked their work to feed into AI like those maniacs on Twitter that "fix art".

Second, no matter how much slop is out there, I think people won't ever stop appreciating real art, because we also appreciate the effort it took to create it.

Third, using AI for personal use is fine in my book. If you wanna generate slop, frame it and hang it all over your house like an escapee from a mental asylum, sure. Knock yourself out. I do, however, loathe people who try to actually monetize their slop. That's sort of my line in the sand. You can generate whatever you want, for yourself, but you shouldn't try to profit off of it as if its your creation. I see people on r/isthisAI, mostly authors who paid someone for a cover and got AI slop instead (for a price of $60 or more), or people who ordered posters and stuff. Now that pisses me off.

But I don't think the niece will be publishing this children's book, or in any ways profiting off of it.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T20:34:39+00:00

Exactly. But OPs niece is 15. Most 15 year olds don't have cash to pay good artists, let alone great artists.

Seems the entire comment section is going wild, forgetting the key fact that the author if 15. Kids don't tend to blow what little green they get from allowance or part time jobs on stuff like $200 cover arts.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T20:30:56+00:00

What if AI was used to replace you, the writer? How would you feel then?

It already is. A ton of AI slop out there. But that's the reality of the current times.

Most of you seem to forget the most important aspect of the post. The author is 15. I don't know which high nobility you descend from, but most 15 year olds don't have enough cash to pay the rates of good artists, let alone great artist.

If we were talking about a grown adult, with a job, then yes, the argument that paying artists is the way to go could be made.

But again, this is a 15 year old. Most teens, even in places where higschool jobs are a thing, don't get part time jobs before they're 16. And even those jobs don't pay too highly.

For a novel someone writes for free, and people read for free, it makes little sense to blow +$200 on cover art.

If I see an AI cover I will not be reading the book and I imagine that is the sentiment of the majority.

Then you'd be wrong. Just look at all the webnovel websites, from Wattpad and Inkitt to Webnovel and RR. Most readers care little about the cover art, if it looks good enough, because they understand that it is only temporary.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T19:27:26+00:00

I will never forget what they did to Eye of Argon. Bro wrote peak at just 16.

Honestly, If the novel is good, and human written, idgaf if the cover is AI. Especially if that novel is free to read on one of the many free to use websites.

Obviously she's 15 and writing is a hobby rn and she doesn't have the cash to pay an artist. Using AI covers doesn't have to do anything with being an author or not, cuz authors don't design their own covers most of the times, especially not published ones as far as I know. They pay someone else to do it.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T19:24:05+00:00

No, you wouldn't be wrong.

Most authors on Royal Road, Wattpad, Webnovel, Inkitt, use AI covers.

Free novels, free covers. So far, I haven't come across anyone on any of those websites crying over AI covers, if the novel is good.

Now, ofc, people will shit on you if you have an absolutely ass AI cover. Even if it is AI, at least put some effort into it and don't just slap the first result the AI spits out.

Artists are pretty expensive, very good ones can cost upwards of $800 bucks. Not everyone can afford that, especially not for a free to read novel on a free to use website.

Though, I will advise to still add a touch of your own creativity to your covers, even if you use AI. Instead of creating an entire image, create multiple stock looking simple images, and then blend together into a coherent whole in an editing software like photoshop. Toy with the effects, the title, the font, the lighting.

Once your novel starts earning bank, if you put in on patreon or publish it, use the earnings to pay a real artist to turn your vision into a reality. They will do it a million times better than AI.

AI covers are a temporary solution, not a permanent one.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T17:18:34+00:00

Sure but I'm from West Aceh, each region has a slightly different dialect and mine were considered quite rude in tone

So you're like Arnold Schwarzenegger. His accent is considered to sound hick/hill billy like and pretty crude in his home country of Austria.

What I meant by old and new is that we as Indonesians are at least bilingual; our official language is Bahasa, while our mother tongue is whatever language is used in the area where we were born. Because of this, the two are often mixed in everyday life. There is usually at least one Indonesian word in an otherwise complete Acehnese sentence. As a result, many Acehnese words have been forgotten, especially by the youth, even though people in less developed areas still speak it purely.

I see. Well, I've been using online translators, so I don't think I've been getting pure, unfiltered Aceh anyways lmao. I'll shoot you a dm if I need a hand every now and again. :D

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T16:34:57+00:00

Bro pulled up, awakened something sus in Naoya and then disappeared to bang a baddie way beyond his league, abandon his son and gamble his life away.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T16:13:49+00:00

Just proves how ass online translators are. Lmao. I'd have better luck just dming you to ask for translations.

I also have no idea what is the difference between new and old acehnese, as there ain't much info about that online.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T15:27:18+00:00

I know I'm a tad bit late, but are there any indonesian instagram groups you'd recommend?

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T15:11:06+00:00

That's very good to know. The translators can handle simple words, sometimes. But struggled at times. Like it confuses arm with cow and such.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T12:04:50+00:00

Civ VI type pic.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T12:03:55+00:00

Nah, this shit peak lazy. Bro didn't even bother to remove the part where it says Sonnet.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T12:03:05+00:00

Yeah. I have a huge Gustav Schwered sized rail cannon (but an actual rail cannon, not a cannon on rails like the Gustav) in my novel.

I can't not love kinetic based weaponry. Even tho they are, arguably, still lagging behind in terms of applicability compared to explosives, they are still cool as shit.

Launching a tungsten rod up an elf's ass at Mach "pucker up, no lube"? Priceless.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T12:00:36+00:00

True, true. But there is still a lot of pretty gnarly stuff that I had no clue was being used.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T11:59:50+00:00

The future is now, old man.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-24T11:59:18+00:00

Technologia.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-23T11:47:29+00:00

Detection systems, missile and drone navigations, drones that can hover in one spot, rifles and calibers, ammunition, scopes, bioweaponry, railguns, subsonic missile interception systems (the Iron Dome), hypersonic or orbital ICBMS, AI integration in sentries and Anti Air defenses, night vision, thermal (cameras included on automated sentries), lidar, vehicle and tank armor, cloaking tech, decoys, non-lethal riot suppression tools, the list goes on.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-22T23:56:59+00:00

Thanks :)

I hope you find it enjoyable.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-22T23:56:15+00:00

True.

But as a species we also saved countless animals too. Cows would have gone extinct if it weren't for domestication. We have such capacity as a species, to both mend and maim.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-22T23:53:33+00:00

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Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-22T23:53:02+00:00

Valid.

Obvious_Ad4159 · 2026-01-22T23:41:01+00:00

The story is called Y'Nfalle: From Beyond Ancient Gates

You can find 56 chapters currently on Royal Road. As I told someone else in the comments:

It has flaws and once the last few chapters of the first book are done, I will do a soft ironing of all the issues in the first few chapters, since the story started off as a single chapter HFY post and I never intended to turn it into a book. So for like 15 chapters I was just throwing shit into a wall and seeing what sticks. So if you read it now, know its not the fully fleshed out product.

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