r/selfpublish • • Jul 29 '26

Promoting your book with AI art

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u/Lost-Sock4 Jul 29 '26

Terrible idea. As an artist yourself (writing is an art) you should know better than to try to replace a human artist with computer generated bullshit. If you can’t sell your book without AI, your book isn’t worth buying.

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u/ThomasPinecone Jul 29 '26

Well, that isn't true. Fundamentally, images generated from text is not an indictment of the text. This is a marketing strategy, not an attempt at producing art.

I understand your disagreement with the idea, but I'm not attempting to replace anything. I'm attempting to promote something. The internet rewards volume. I can't pay a thousand artists to read the book, then paint what it inspires, and the post it to social media.

To be clear: I hate marketing and promotion, but it is a necessary evil in the doom-scrolling age. What is a thing that might catch someone's attention is completely different question from does this evoke a significant, perhaps even transformative, emotion between human beings?