Bro I kid you not this is how it felt. Like they kept asking questions about stuff that was either clearly explained in the book or otherwise intentionally left up to reader interpretation

Yeah. I'm not sure what upsets me more: the fact they did it, or the fact they thought it was an okay thing to tell me...

Yeah, I know. Right now I'm just really hurt and upset because I've been VERY CAREFUL about where I post my work specifically to avoid google's ai scraping it, only for this guy to turn around and throw it in :(

So upset about the ai thing I can't even work on my ALMOST FINISHED edits of a manuscript. Fuck man.

I am deeply wounded by this revelation and I'm not sure if I want to continue with Patreon anymore. I can't vet everyone who subscribes, and I don't know what is out there already...

They kept asking about specific things, too, and wouldn't take "interpret it yourself" as an answer. In hindsight they were specifically digging into gaps that an AI summary wouldn't be able to see and summarize.

I've already excised them from the discord and patreon, as well as alerting my peers in the Bookwyrms discord server

Their confession, in case anyone doubted me

I'm still really fucking angry about this.

*tries to bap your face by forepaw is simply so large that it sends you flying* am I doing this right?

I literally sleep atop my hoard (i store magic cards under my bed hahaha)

I'm literally a dragon I don't know what to tell you

Me, explaining why I think playing with expensive cards is fine: I don't have a hoard of cards I like to just sit on Friend I play with who knows I'm a dragon: 🤨 Me: OKAY I MEAN I DO BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN HERE OKAY! PLAY WITH YOUR EXPENSIVE CARDBOARD!!

AND FEEDS IT IN ANYWAY!? No. I don't tolerate that shit. Gone. GONE. I don't WANT IT anywhere NEAR my work. I banned them from the patreon because I can't fucking trust them, and I banned them from the discord because I don't want to hear their excuse.

I originally decided not to ban them from the discord. I changed my mind and evicted them from the discord with a hard ban. I cannot tolerate this for even a minute. I HAVE VERY SPECIFICALLY STOPPED WORKING IN GOOGLE DOCS TO AVOID GEMINI STEALING MY WORKS AND THEN THIS GUY GOES BEHIND MY BACK

It has come to my attention that someone I allowed onto my Patreon has taken my works and fed it into AI because he cannot be assed to think critically about the work. Let me be ABUNDANTLY CLEAR: if I ever catch you doing this to my works, or my friends works, it's on sight. We don't ask questions.

Also this is done without AI, will feature over 50 different hyenas inside, and I'll be doing a version in French and one in English. And it's going to cost me about 10 or 11k EUR to get it manufactured (in Poland).