I don't really understand why there is such a focus on trying to sell art to fanfiction writers (especially on FFnet, where uploaded stories can't include images anyway). I suppose they must have had enough success to make the idea seem financially worthwhile, but how many people are prepared to *buy* illustrations 'inspired by' the stories they wrote for free in the first place? I'd have thought that marketing covers to self-published authors on Amazon, for example, where there is a genuine demand and arguably even a need for artwork -- and where people are already in the mindset that you need to pay for professional design/editing services in order to get a decent result -- would have been much more profitable.
You don't even need a scam to do AI romance; humans quite happily deceive themselves. "Virtual girlfriends" are very marketable, and there are plenty of women who say thay have fallen in love with their AI ("he understands me"/"he would never hurt me") despite knowing full well that it is computer software... and will argue passionately that it is a sentient 'e-human'.
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Date: 2025-05-17 03:14 pm (UTC)You don't even need a scam to do AI romance; humans quite happily deceive themselves. "Virtual girlfriends" are very marketable, and there are plenty of women who say thay have fallen in love with their AI ("he understands me"/"he would never hurt me") despite knowing full well that it is computer software... and will argue passionately that it is a sentient 'e-human'.