Put your work online long enough and someone will come for it. These posts cover internet trolls, review bombing, online harassment, and handling a brutal review with your sanity and reputation intact.
AIA member of a big creative writing group wrote that people who use AI deserve to be castrated. Nobody had been caught at anything, and nobody objected. The charge was using software. The sentence was mutilation.
AIMention AI in a writing group and you're a thief headed for hell. So I moved the pile-on to a hiking forum, where a beginner let an app plan her route to a waterfall. She had a wonderful day. The…
AIAn author who uses AI for research and covers, but not her writing, complained about a festival's AI cover ban. The thread ended with a stranger calling her utterly disgusting. Here's where preference ends and cruelty begins.
AIA fan artist found her painting of two DC superheroes copied with AI. Here is what copyright protects in fan art, why a lawsuit rarely works, and how the thread turned on the one person who disagreed.
AIA writer admitted his AI-assisted pen-name books outsold his own work, and a writing group told him he was no author, had no ethics and would have his name spread offline. Authorship belongs to whoever owns the book, whatever tools…
AIPeople who restore or colorize old family photos with AI keep getting called slop merchants. Hollywood fought the same war over colorized movies. The fix is a label and the original, never a pile-on.
AIAn author asked whether an AI cover makes an AI book, and the thread decided the whole book must be stolen. What AI Derangement Syndrome is, what readers think, and why the only question that matters is whether the book…
AIAn author asked how to turn her comic series into a KDP paperback because ChatGPT kept changing her pictures. The thread went to war over AI. Here's the answer she needed.
Critique GroupsYou'd think writers would be kind to each other. Writing groups are some of the cruelest rooms online. Why rejection, fear and status drive it, why the polite groups don't help either, and what a good group looks like.
AI WritingBig Facebook writing groups promise help and deliver pile-ons. A beginner asks an honest question and gets insulted, an author asks for a cover vote and gets called a thief, and any mention of AI starts a brawl. Here's why…
AISomeone in a self-publishing group asked why anyone cares if other people use AI to write books. Under the insults were three answers that hold up, several that don't, and a writer who quit because everyone assumed his books were…
AIThe Times Literary Supplement removed an essay about AI and the crisis of the author because AI was used in writing it. The magazine enforced its rule in four sentences. The crowd on Facebook went after the man by name.
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