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ughhhh of fucking course they jumped on AI.

And I shall call my robot powered robot machine HUMANS FIRST!

That’s the bit I’m staring at too

If they want tobput they name to this garbage let them... its going to be bad.

That's so fucking disappointing :(

There are other companies doing "vBooks". It's rather maddening.

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The irony of Hamilton having a novel called The Reality Dysfunction is not lost on me

Intriguing. My guess: These authors will get a decent payout because it's VC money but the viewership will be extraordinarily low. Might get some brief traction among the AI boosters on X.

Right?! ‘So how does it feel betraying every value for a shiny new penny?’

The biggest of oofs

My best friend was super into Salvatore…when He was 12. what a bunch of weiners.

"That wouldn't otherwise get made" Yeah, cause Drizzt fuckin sucks, dude

Thank you for clarifying. I knew it was a “fuck those guys” situation but it’s nice to know “fuck those guys because this.”

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Wait really? What'd he do?

That's f*cked up.

Wow, I'm gobsmacked at the rudeness from the con staffer!

Good, carry my spirit of "fuck you, traitor" with you.

Then those nutcrackers are NOT being very creative or original at all. It is NOT their original works at all. So blind... So blind.

Obligatory "this blew up" post. Other things that should blow up include: * Data centres used for AI * Anti-AI sentiment and action * My book sales (I do not and have never used AI for anything, least of all anything creative)

"Hmm, whose money and intellectual property will it be easiest to get our hands on?" "Authors first!"

@dagonet.eurosky.social dit dan ook. Gruwelijk.

YEP!

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ai;dr

SO MUCH this

While I love David Lynch's Dune as someone who had already read Dune, it is also like a masterclass in why you absolutely cannot just "put the book on screen". They aren't the same medium, they don't work the same, things don't translate so easily!

YEP!!!

cool. now I know who not to support going forward. it's always so jarring when creatives sell thier soul to AI.

The irony of calling this "Author's First" and then using AI generated slop on it is insane.

JFC. That is utterly desperate and crappy.

There is a whole industry full of human beings who work in film, fyi

That's a very, very short-sighted, I'm all right jack view of the current creative landscape...

R. A. Salvatore's writing isn't literature; it's a symptom of capitalism. Buddy hasn't had a story to tell since the turn of the century, but he's had bills to pay so round and round we go. That horse is so dead Matron Malice resurrected it to kill its bastard son

God you suck shit, delete everything

Ikr

You know what’s funny. The only name I have heard of on that list of authors is Salvatore and only because of the D&D connection. Couldn’t tell you anything about what he wrote. Never heard of the other authors either. Guess I wasn’t their “target audience”. Definitely not now either.

How about fucking no

Something gross about the fact that people who’ve already made their money/reputation are so comfortable with walking away and destroying the industry behind them.

Quibi: The Next Generation.

Salvatore has always been a hack, not that familiar with the others but fuck all that straight to hell.

*unsurprised head-desk*

look at those terms. you get to sell your movie on one explicit streaming site. no other rights to anything you create there. they get full rights to anything you use to make the movie. even, if i read this right, a sublicense on your book that you base the movie on

Dammit, R.A. Salvatore. I enjoyed those as comfort reads.