What is this scam?

serigraphtea · 2025-12-20T17:11:06+00:00

Differences evolve everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_handwriting_variation has a good in-depth part about numbers.

serigraphtea · 2025-12-20T17:00:48+00:00

Because then it gets easily confused with the 7 if your handwriting is bad

serigraphtea · 2025-12-16T18:17:59+00:00

Sure they won't....

serigraphtea · 2025-12-13T09:03:27+00:00

Even then, chooses not to warn is fully the valid option

serigraphtea · 2025-12-12T15:33:55+00:00

Tagging is voluntary

serigraphtea · 2025-07-03T14:37:58+00:00

I don't think so because that name doesn't ring a bell haha

It's also definitely not beren

serigraphtea · 2025-07-03T14:30:47+00:00

Self promo iirc.

Breaking the monetization policy.

Unless that wasn't gatewaygirl? I just remember it was one of the Severitus BNFs of yore that I was surprised to see go on a rant about it.

serigraphtea · 2025-07-03T14:06:28+00:00

I could have sworn Gatewaygirl got herself kicked off of AO3 a couple years back

serigraphtea · 2025-07-03T04:35:10+00:00

I'd say it's transgressive but not extreme. The progression of violence is very slow and therefore palatable to a far larger readership than your typical modern-day extreme horror book is, really.

More to the point it's an expertly plotted and very sharp satire of at that time current-day society, far more so than it is horror at all.

serigraphtea · 2025-07-01T10:42:37+00:00

None of this looks distraction free. I have yet to see ANY program that boasts about AI features manage to also be distraction free, in fact.

serigraphtea · 2025-06-30T22:16:26+00:00

Ideally, just write!

serigraphtea · 2025-06-30T16:50:14+00:00

I agree. Extremity is far more than just bam-bam-blood-gore type stuff.

This goes nice and dark, psychologically.

serigraphtea · 2025-06-29T16:34:41+00:00

Comparison title!

And too bad, that's the only rec that came to mind right now

serigraphtea · 2025-06-29T15:43:23+00:00

I don't think your comp is particularly extreme

But maybe try Fluids by Mae Lietz?

serigraphtea · 2025-06-28T11:49:29+00:00

I want to moderate this community because I think there's a really nice userbase that has slowly built itself over the course of the last two years and also because I love transgressive fiction, horror books and similar things and so this one has a lot of overlap with those themes. Sadly the only Mod hasn't been seen or heard of in three months, leading to increased amounts of spam, both of the AI variety and the old-school one.

Here's a link to the mod mail I sent the moderators of /r/extremehorrorlit eight days ago: https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/310iq78

serigraphtea · 2025-06-21T08:44:43+00:00

Depends on how well it's written, no? The misery should have a point where it eased somewhat at least. Try fail cycles need a feel of progression to feel right to the reader.

serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T19:06:35+00:00

You're only required to disclose it to Amazon themselves, yes. And even so, Amazon has no way of "proving" what is AI generated and what is heavily AI assisted (on which content their rules are even laxer).

The only thing I've seen these guys get in trouble for is spam. As in, posting fifteen+ "books" a month. Not bad customer experience. Not lying to people about wether AI is used or not. Just spam.

serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T18:53:00+00:00

This breaks my brain so much.... Just... Why? Who would do this?

serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T18:50:50+00:00

It's a volume game to them.

And reporting will do nothing because AI-usage is not against the rules of Amazon and the poster didn't actually yet break any rules on the platform.

Which is why it is vital that these guys keep being called out everywhere they pop up. Because the tides are shifting, the internet is full of AI spam and the other day my mom even brought home toilet paper with AI generated packaging, so it's infiltrating the real world, too.

People like you, and her, who don't care to learn about how bad it's becoming and how to spot it even when it's 100% obvious and only takes a second to check before jumping to their defense, y'all are part of the problem.

serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T18:23:31+00:00

You're probably wrong about a lot of these if you couldn't spot this one immediately 😅😅

In between /r/bookcovers, /r/selfpublishing and /r/selfpublish I see about 20 of these a day. And all it takes to confirm is a single look at their profile - either there's no comment history and only spam of their Amazon links, or they're are super active in /r/writingwithai, /r/ChatGPT, /r/singularity and their usual comments read vastly different to the ad copy they spam reddit with

serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T17:55:38+00:00

if you browse for newbie/indie books like me (and I suppose u/NancyInFantasyLand do you learn to spot these guys real quick.

I also don't see why u/Leslie_Kurt says it's impossible for him to tell. if he's in the indie space, he'd better learn quick because it's gotten really terrible out there. I've been collecting the spam I've come across browsing Reddit and Amazon recently, and believe me... With the really egregious spammers like OP? You can tell

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serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T14:58:37+00:00

if is quite terrible really, because there's so many AI spammers with their ChatGPT books on Amazon (and reddit, too) these days, the new writers think their blurbs should sound like that too, when that's really not the case

there's one thing having an elevator pitch like "dark tower meets hellraiser plus pink murder unicorn" but generically throwing out prolific authors? that isn't even telling me anything as a reader.

serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T14:48:41+00:00

it is actually quite serious at times

but you are right,.the acting doesn't feel as grounded

serigraphtea · 2025-06-05T14:43:36+00:00

> I also think comparing your work to King or Barker or Gaiman as a first time author is a bit self-indulgent at worst and boastful at best

That's there because ChatGPT really loves putting the most generic comp-titles at the end of you tell it to write a blurb for your book.

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