Ai cover is the same as no cover

[Deleted member 167438]

 

[Jaicodonutsz]

That free Canva Premium from my school email is something that pays off hmm

 

[Ananias5]

Its because they put non-relivant boobs on the cover just to bait people in.

I write smut, boobs bring in an audience.

Most covers are singing someone else’s song.

What are we to judge by, if not the cover?

It’s what the cover of a book is there for: to be judged (to bind the pages, and protect the delicate pages from damage).

It’s only when it relates to people that this gets tenuous, but if you see an unwashed, hideously ugly, disease ridden person from who you can see the fleas hopping:

You might feel for them, or even pity them, but you’re not going to go over and ask them out for a quick romp in the Kroger restroom.

You see an interesting cover and/or an interesting title (probably while searching by genre), these lead you to the synopsis and the tags page, from which you make the decision on how you spend your time: ergo chapter 1.

If we were fair to all stories, we would withhold our judgement until not only the last page was done and read, but we’d had a nice sleep and a very pleasant day of silence to think on what we read before delivering our verdict:

That story was bad.

I judge the book by the first 3 chapters. The cover doesn't define the story.

 

[Alski]

I write smut, boobs bring in an audience.

Thats why i said non-relevant boob. If they are your MC or prominant side character for the arc sure go right ahead, but if they arnt you should look to something more relevant.

 

[Ananias5]

Thats why i said non-relevant boob. If they are your MC or prominant side character for the arc sure go right ahead, but if they arnt you should look to something more relevant.

That's true. You gotta have a cover that fits the audience you want reading. I bring in all the gooners.

 

[Golden_Hyde]

I... kinda disagree on the implications at the titling of this thread but in general, I have a good laugh ?

Anyways, I would consider it as "no cover" if it's just the showcased AI-generated character portrait, but I surely have a good faith in everyone that they're at least willing to put fancy text and whatnot, just to make it enough to be considered a 'cover'

 

[aToTeT]

I judge the book by the first 3 chapters. The cover doesn't define the story.

Fair enough. But it does define whether a considerable portion of the population clicks on a story.

Have a wonderful idea for a cover for one of my stories (character sews, is engineer: copper wire stitching out the name of a transhumanist machine god is go)… but I don’t have the requisite materials today, and I’d rather write — covers and reader reception as extant… or otherwise.

So until it has a cover: I will write it. But I do not expect considerable traffic until it has both a cover, and a good number of chapters.

We don’t have infinite time in our lives, so we prioritise: the appearance of quality — else not much point in filtering by popularity. I do expect great things from a nice cover, and I can see why many would feel incentivised to use an AI cover rather than no cover at all.

The appearance of quality has quite the effect on our perception of the actual quality.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

For me, it is the sameness of covers. The real problem is everybody using AI that all stole from the same artists. They should be using the AI that stole from a different artist.

 

[RedMuffin]

For me, it is the sameness of covers. The real problem is everybody using AI that all stole from the same artists. They should be using the AI that stole from a different artist.

 

[BearlyAlive]

I'd love to know how to train an AI just so I could feed it with 80s anime characters. Those designs were and still are the peak of Japanese drawings.

 

[Clo]

I'd love to know how to train an AI just so I could feed it with 80s anime characters. Those designs were and still are the peak of Japanese drawings.

Those Escaflowne noses...

 

[JayMark]

I'm working on drawing my own covers, but for now I improvise. I've slowly come to hate AI art and make sure to use the cheapest stuff possible so I can be constantly aware that it shouldn't be permanent.

It's only good at making boobs.

Although in the hours of filtering AI pictures to get a useable cover, I've had many a good laugh. And it's given me visuals that are certainly better than nothing when I filter long enough. I've also had some of the discarded results give me writing ideas.

 

[Ananias5]

Fair enough. But it does define whether a considerable portion of the population clicks on a story.

Have a wonderful idea for a cover for one of my stories (character sews, is engineer: copper wire stitching out the name of a transhumanist machine god is go)… but I don’t have the requisite materials today, and I’d rather write — covers and reader reception as extant… or otherwise.

So until it has a cover: I will write it. But I do not expect considerable traffic until it has both a cover, and a good number of chapters.

We don’t have infinite time in our lives, so we prioritise: the appearance of quality — else not much point in filtering by popularity. I do expect great things from a nice cover, and I can see why many would feel incentivised to use an AI cover rather than no cover at all.

The appearance of quality has quite the effect on our perception of the actual quality.

Cover pictures don't matter to me. But lack of a cover does.