@mychalrwilson I'll be doing weekly posts, starting tomorrow, through June and July and will include a link to your site in each of them. My small payback for the enjoyment of your stories.
@ABTimothyAuthor Use what you need. I have standards, such as using "asked" and "replied" where necessary. "Teased," "joked," etc., are also good. Not every emotion can be conveyed in dialogue. I heard the line "Yes, it is" said 5 different ways by the same actor. Clue the reader in.
Very sad. We authors struggle. Self-publishing was supposed to open things up for us. It did to a point. But all the while, we were just generating fodder for the AI beast (and a Russian pirate site).
π¨ THIS IS THE ENTIRE AI INDUSTRY'S NIGHTMARE IN ONE QUOTE.
An author suing OpenAI says AI companies didn't just buy books.
They allegedly downloaded them from pirate sites.
Then, according to his claim, stripped away copyright pages and ISBN information before feeding the material into AI models.