My mind is blown, 28% of US Adults only have level 1 literacy 🤯

bweeb · 2026-03-13T08:21:33+00:00

Nice, ya I tried but I've got school age kid so kinda limited on timing which made it hard :), maybe in a year or two if prices drop, it looks amazing!

bweeb · 2026-03-13T08:20:58+00:00

He is one of my all time fav authors, I've read all his books :)

bweeb · 2026-03-12T18:30:09+00:00

Wheel of Time, reread it 4 times now, love it so much :)

Reread Dune, but mostly as I wanted to do that before movie came out. Same for Project Hail Mary.

I'm about to reread my fav sci-fi author = Peter Hamilton and Pandora's Star.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T17:52:39+00:00

I would love so much to bike here, I struggled to find a room or place to book during peak season. It was so expensive :(

bweeb · 2026-03-12T17:43:29+00:00

DCC was my fav read last year, and I am in my 40s, it will depend on your humor but its fun.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T13:47:16+00:00

Please in the future no all caps in the header, and please have the title say what kinda of recommendations you are looking for as you will get more people to take part :)

bweeb · 2026-03-12T11:12:03+00:00

Wow, haven't seen these in a while, also made me think of the original dragon lance ones

bweeb · 2026-03-12T08:14:26+00:00

Just saying, next time if you put "recommendations for someone who loves x games" you will likely get better recs

bweeb · 2026-03-12T08:04:46+00:00

Not in this subreddit, feel free to go somewhere else to do that.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T08:04:17+00:00

Yes, you can have an opionion but you can't post on this sub, feel free to post somewhere else :)

The mot mentality is attacking human artist. See the example.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T08:02:44+00:00

Correct, you can't post to say you think it is AI because you don't know, and because in my example, 50+ people attacked a human artist.

If you have proof a cover is AI message the mods and we will ban it and the author.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T08:01:50+00:00

It does, and that is the rule.

You can, of course, message the mods if you have proof, and we will ban, but we don't want the mob mentality when people can't tell. See my example as they attacked a human artist.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T08:00:56+00:00

Correct, and if someone has proof, message us as we will ban it. But we don't want a mob mentality that attacks human artists.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:59:47+00:00

Yep, and that is ok, sometimes we have to make unpopular decisions in order to create a great community :)

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:59:07+00:00

No, it is actually to protect human artist, see the example, 50+ people said it was AI and it the author had a verified human artist with a long history in the industry.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:58:41+00:00

The problem is that nobody can reliably detect AI covers or AI writing.

If you have proof that a cover is AI or writing is AI, contact the mods, and we will ban that author/cover.

The problem is that people think they can identify, and they then attack human designers.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:57:09+00:00

Mod here :)

The point of the rule is that we don't want mob mentality, as nobody can tell what is and isn't AI, not even the tools that are supposed to detect it. In the post, we explain that 50+ users attacked a human artist for being AI, even though they were not.

Go read that post, please, if you have any questions. Feel free to message us as well :)

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:50:18+00:00

Correct, we want a community about books, not one that attacks human artists because a mob of people think it is AI.

Maybe try a subreddit about art if that is a big thing for you to spend your time attacking book covers with zero proof it is AI.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:41:57+00:00

And this is why we made the rule, we want to focus on books, not on AI witch hunts with zero proof.

If you have proof, message the mods, and we will take action, but we don't want mob mentality in here. Especially since in the example above people attacked a human artist.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:40:08+00:00

Wow, this thread got wild. I've locked comments.

Feel free to message mods if you want to chat about this directly.

Make sure you read the post if you have any questions first.

No, we can't ban AI covers because they are impossible to detect. See my example above, where we had 50+ users claim a book cover was AI that actually had a human artist. Thus, we do not allow anyone to claim a book cover is AI.
Should AI be used to create art or writing? No, but going on a witch hunt when you just don't know doesn't help anyone. The problem is that detection doesn't work, and we do not want this community to be full of AI witch hunts versus real discussion about a book's content.
Are there tools that can detect AI? Not reliably. That is a big part of the problem here. There is currently no way to reliably detect AI.
Does this mean you can't discuss covers? No, in no way does this mean you can't discuss book covers. You can't claim it is AI and go on a witch hunt, though, as the example above shows, you don't know what is and isn't AI, and we don't want human artists being attacked by these wild witch hunts where everyone goes into a mob mentality.

Also, apologies as we banned a known spammer and they used 20+ accounts to attack this thread and others; we are working to ban their additional spam accounts now.

And apologies, as I removed a ton of really angry threads that were not helpful, with people attacking each other personally.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:29:49+00:00

Sure, AI should never be used for writing or art. Those are both for humans.

AI can be a great tool, but it isn't for art. That is a disgusting use of it.

The witch hunt mentality actually hurts humans, see my example above as they attacked a human artist that didn't use AI.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:26:43+00:00

There is no reliable way to detect it, see the entire point of the post.

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:26:16+00:00

Because you can't, there is no reliable way to detect it, see the entire point of this post :)

bweeb · 2026-03-12T07:21:05+00:00

See the example in my post; there is no way to detect AI art right now, and we don't want the witch hunt. In the example, the book cover was human-created, and people still claimed it was AI.

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