The PEOPLE App<\/a>\u00a0is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Many of the top responses to the user\u2019s Reddit post agreed that overall, they are not in the wrong \u2014 particularly because the new author used AI to create the book in the first place.\n<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt seems like she was already insecure that she used AI or other people have critiqued her for it so she automatically took it as [judgment],\u201d one person wrote, while another said, \u201cSelf published AND AI?! sounds like a total s— show…. yikes.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Others said the user was in the wrong, particularly for one detail: telling her author friend to \u201ccalm down.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no reality where she would be proud of an AI generated cover, so that reply was completely disingenuous and you know it,\u201d one person responded in part, \u201cespecially since you said basically nothing else. Also, there is no reason why you couldn’t say \u2018congratulations\u2019 without buying the book? And finally, literally no one appreciates being told to “calm down\u2019. Not a single person.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The same person also asked the user if they \u201ceven like” their author friend. In response, the user said, \u201cI do in fact like her very much though I will admit I might walk on eggshells with her a bit.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
As for the \u201ccalm down\u201d criticism, they clarified: \u201cWhen I told her to calm down, that was in response to her coming to me hours after I asked the question (assumedly after she got flack from somebody else) to yell at me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI get that telling someone to chill isn\u2019t ideal wording,\u201d the user continued, \u201cbut she sent multiple messages demanding I explain myself, and at that point it felt a bit confrontational.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW After their friend self-published a children’s book, a Reddit user did not congratulate her, and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-44107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114807936354455842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}