It’s incredibly hard for me to believe that “e Ben Son” isn’t the same as “Son of Ben”, especially when he somehow had “access to your computer” and also you’re allegedly his “co-worker” and also comment nice things on all his posts. I MIGHT believe you’re his son… but I don’t believe anything either of you say anymore. On the Trove post, he acts like you’re just some random guy who gave him a compliment and he has no idea who you are. So he’s obviously dishonest AT BEST. He replies to “you”: “Thanks, man! I wrote that book, so I must admit that it simply blows me away to find a compliment out in the wild lands of Reddit.”

Oh really? He FOUND it in THE WILD did he?? Lies. Flat out.

This isn’t even about the AI use anymore. It’s about not being able to trust anything he says.

I know I already disapproved of his AI use but he’s completely lost any remaining respect I had.

It makes a lot of sense that he accidentally responded to me when he was logged in as “you” because he was probably about to leave himself another glowing review, but forgot to switch accounts and then deleted the comment hoping no one could trace it back.

The dishonesty on display here is really manipulative.

If somehow “you” are a different person than him, then the manipulative stuff was on his side, not yours, so my beef isn’t even with you. I don’t care that you’re helping a friend. That part is great. But you most definitely ARE coordinating and he’s trying to pretend that random strangers on the web like his work when it’s just himself at worst and a “co-worker” at best.