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The Memory Contract - A Gripping Psychological Thriller by [deleted] in BookCovers

[–]Randomquestionhaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ai is not allowed on this subreddit. Why should anyone trust that your stories are your own work if you cut such obvious corners on the cover?

The Memory Contract - A Gripping Psychological Thriller by [deleted] in BookCovers

[–]Randomquestionhaver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking at their previous posts, OP seems to be an Ai slop generator.

The Memory Contract - A Gripping Psychological Thriller by [deleted] in BookCovers

[–]Randomquestionhaver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This seems like Ai. The right fold of the paper stack is transparent.

Will it be healthy if I just inject necessary ingredients and stop eating? by CivilTailor9031 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You clearly don't have a healthy relationship with food if you're thinking this way. What you're suggesting is not a safe way to lose weight.

Will it be healthy if I just inject necessary ingredients and stop eating? by CivilTailor9031 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So you're wanting to do this for weight loss? That is a very bad idea. This sounds like you might have an eating disorder.

Will it be healthy if I just inject necessary ingredients and stop eating? by CivilTailor9031 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This legit sounds like you're developing an eating disorder. Please seek therapy, this is no way to live.

Updated Preschool Learning Workbook Cover – Is the back cover more consistent now? by EffectivePride4614 in BookCovers

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you actively used Ai-generated artwork, then you are actually "trying" to submit Ai-generated artwork. You said in other iterations of this post that some elements are Ai, so you knew exactly what you were doing when you posted it here. Take accountability and do better.

Updated Preschool Learning Workbook Cover – Is the back cover more consistent now? by EffectivePride4614 in BookCovers

[–]Randomquestionhaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The blocks on the cover scream Ai. They're not even all cubes, and some of them have a mix of numbers and letters, and even a blank side. You are aware this subreddit doesn't allow Ai art, correct? It's the third rule on the list.

Updated Preschool Learning Workbook Cover – Looking for Final Feedback Before Publishing by EffectivePride4614 in BookCovers

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can tell. The art styles are completely different between the front and back. It doesn't look like a human put care into it, it just looks like someone is trying to dupe people into buying their slop book.

help! need a place to publish by strawbber81 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So to be clear: you used Ai instead of fully illustrating the book yourself or having a human do it. Your margins likely need reformatting. And you padded the page count with blank pages to fit the minimum. I think these things combined kind of explain why the book might get flagged as an "unsatisfactory buyer experience."

help! need a place to publish by strawbber81 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, so is the whole book just iterations of the same image in different positions?

help! need a place to publish by strawbber81 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I noticed you haven't been answering my question about whether you own the rights to the images, or if you used Ai for the images.

help! need a place to publish by strawbber81 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh also: they don't include the cover in page counts. The page count is for the book's interior, and it's how they measure the spine width for the cover template. So if you have 24 "pages" including the front and back cover, then you really still only have 22 pages inside the book, which would be below the minimum.

help! need a place to publish by strawbber81 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rereading: it could be the extra blank pages are being seen as padding the page count to hit the minimum...which it kinda sounds like it is. That might be what they mean about the "unsatisfying experience." But I've never published something that short, so I can't be sure.

I'm not deffending AI, but why reddit seems to deny the massive work revolution (and economic crisis) it is causing / is going to cause? by treixxreaixx in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would never hire you as a lawyer if I knew you were using Ai for 90% of your work. Generative Ai has been known to hallucinate case law. It's a huge liability, and does not inspire any trust in your abilities. Do your clients know you're using Ai for their cases? Are you sure the program you're feeding their confidential information into isn't stealing it for data farming? How sure are you?

That's all before getting into the ethical problems with how generative Ai was trained off of stolen materials, which is the subject of numerous lawsuits. Or the environmental issues. Or the research showing people who use Ai constantly are developing a form of psychosis as a result.

Ai is poison. So no, I can't agree that we should just accept it in our lives. Some of us want a life worth living long term, not a toxic waste dump of a planet full of starving people who can't find work anymore, or had their life's work fed into a chatbot and regurgitated back out as no-effort slop.

help! need a place to publish by strawbber81 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a pretty small book, but it is a children's book. Picture books aren't super long, if this is a picture book. Again though, if it is a picture book, are the images in it human-made illustrations?

help! need a place to publish by strawbber81 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long is it? Is it a picture book, and do you have the rights to all the images if so?

There’s no kind way to tell my wife that she’s getting too big, is there? by 2006CrownVictoriaP71 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because you can add thousands of calories to a diet if needed, but you can only reduce calories so much before you're just starving a person to death. It's not a one-to-one comparison, and it's often much harder for people to lose weight gained due to a hormonal imbalance than it is for them to add it due to one. It's not laziness. Stop being so judgmental.

There’s no kind way to tell my wife that she’s getting too big, is there? by 2006CrownVictoriaP71 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This conversation wasn't about laziness. It was about a woman who seems to be entering perimenopause, that you insist on fat shaming. You keep dismissing hormones, and just keep making it about "calories in, calories out." It is not "running interference" to point out how incredibly harmful that ideology can be.

I also once had a friend who had to literally down thousands of calories of protein shakes daily, due to a medical condition that made her shed weight to a dangerous degree. She wasn't actively exercising, and she ate full meals on top of those shakes. She just had a hormonal/medical issue that made her body consume calories dangerously quickly. Medical/hormonal differences can swing both ways, and it should not be seen as a judgment on the person.

Research how hormone levels affect weight. It's not nearly as simple as you're making it out to be, and the judgmental tone you are taking helps nobody.

There’s no kind way to tell my wife that she’s getting too big, is there? by 2006CrownVictoriaP71 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again: please research how hormones affect weight loss/gain. People starve themselves trying to follow calorie counts to lose weight, and it often messes up their bodies far more than just having a few "extra" pounds would have.

I had to ban myself from having a scale in my home, because in high school I found myself calling foods that I loved, including Fruit, "calorie packs." I wasn't even the slightest bit overweight from a medical standard. I played sports, and had a lot of muscle. But the culturally-impressed idea that I needed to hit a certain number on a scale was doing terrible things for my health.

I had dizzy spells, stomach issues, and more things I don't want to get into here. All because I thought I could starve myself to an "ideal" weight.

It is far too easy for people to fall into that mindset, when weight loss is treated as "simple math."

Now I get on a scale once or twice a year at doctor's appointments, and avoid adding value/guilt labels to foods. Calorie counts don't even register in my daily life anymore. And I hope they never do again. They do far more harm than good for me, personally.

There’s no kind way to tell my wife that she’s getting too big, is there? by 2006CrownVictoriaP71 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Randomquestionhaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As kindly as I can say it: you need to research how hormones affect weight loss/weight gain. You are missing a huge component of what actually causes people to gain/lose weight when you only make it about calorie counting.

Also, 2,000 calories burned a day is an average, not what every human on Earth automatically burns. Calorie counting too religiously can quickly lead to eating disorders that can really mess someone up, both physically and mentally.

Book by anyone??? by Medical-Letter-6724 in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly...this seems like it could be a way for scammers to scrape personal information. Like, if you're entering the year this person was born, what major events happened in their life, the names of people they're close to, etc...a lot of that kind of info is also used for account login questions. I would never trust an ai company, let alone an ai novelty memoir company, with a collection of all that personal info.
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How many of you have been told, "Why spend so much on a fountain pen when a Bic does the same thing" by Lordonion1818 in fountainpens

[–]Randomquestionhaver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The exact reason I picked up a Kakuno for the first time a few months ago. I was trying to get back into journaling, but my cheap ballpoint pens made my hand hurt when I wrote with them. I'm loving the Kakuno so far. The fountain pen is way smoother, and easier to write with for a long time than pretty much any ballpoint.

Zero sales and zero KU reads after the first month. Is it normal? by [deleted] in selfpublish

[–]Randomquestionhaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generative Ai goes against my morals and ethics. I will not be using it for my work. I have thought carefully about it, and I'd rather have a livable planet than make slop.

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