Generative AI: The Author’s Ally

We are a fiction writing community, not an artistic community. Some of our members are artists, and we celebrate that. We encourage our members to collab with them, or hire them, if it fits their interest or project goals.

Most authors cannot hire an artist to create the concept art and cover design of their dreams. Generative art can be a huge help for small creators. Larger companies should always prioritize real artists.

Human-crafted art is always superior (in principle) to generated art. In practice, artists can't demand attention, especially early on in their journey.

LegendFiction encourages artists to create boldly and frequently, and not to see AI as competition. It is another tool available to us all. Artists will be the ones who can use it best. Our artist members may or may not choose to use AI in their workflow, and that's up to them.

Note: The mere fact of being a human artist does not entitle you to attention or work. Artists have to inspire and earn their audience an their clients, just like everyone else.

We can copyright an output, not a style.

Through their talent and skill, artists of all kinds have pioeneered methods of communication. Writing, carving, painting, and any form of art, is a method of communication.

These can be 'passed' to a machine, to allow someone without that skill to being to communice as well.

Naturally, someone commissioning a machine is like an Art Director, not an artist. But it is still a valid collaboration, helpful for the bottom of the market where real artists cannot be afforded. We all can't wait for the the stupid use of generative AI art, where people deliberately try to profit off of copyrighted IP, or the unending slopshipping, to be cleared out of the culture. Good people with good ideas to share are sidelined, shut down, and ignored. They have stories, proposals, projects they've mulled on for years. But they have been hamstrung from age, trauma, life conditions, and endless reasons. I accept that how AI was scraped and handled was done badly, but we can't put that genie back in the bottle. It's here to stay, like it or not. Now it's about what you do with it.