According to Wilson, the Ockham awards committee alerted publishers to an amendment to the eligibility conditions in August, outlawing AI covers. He thought the books he entered for the Acorn Jann Medlicott fiction prize were on safe ground but was belatedly told by the designer that the covers were heavily reliant on AI.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
    8·
    3 days ago

    Why would you go to the time and effort of writing and publishing a book, only to use some AI slop for the cover?

    I wouldn’t consider reading a book with an AI generated cover, the fact that someone would half ass something so important doesn’t say anything good about the book itself.

    • BlameTheAntifa
      3·
      3 days ago

      He hired a “designer” and the “designer” used AI instead of designing.

    • Synapse
      6·
      4 days ago

      The title of the book makes me think that was the point. Still looks uncanny as hell.

  • Ech@lemmy.ca
    22·
    4 days ago

    but was belatedly told by the designer

    “Designer”. Also, who the hell pays another person to generate images for them? Isn’t that the point of this bullshit tech? To “democratize art”, as the techbros keep claiming?

    • RecallMadness@lemmy.nz
      6·
      4 days ago

      B.b.b.b.but It allows anyone without artistic talent to learn use AI prompting to produce something that they could never create themselves (without practice).

      We’ll ignore how this makes the “prompt artist” completely reliant on a handful of corporations.

    • _ed@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      3 days ago

      Aah that’s correct - the image replaced the original link - did not think that through.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzM
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yeah so there’s a little quirk. You can set a thumbnail image when posting a link to an article, but if you set an image in the image field then that gets posted as the main link. A thumbnail image has to be a URL in a dedicated Thumbnail URL field. Catches people out reasonably often.