Writers have harder time to be seen online because slop fills people's feeds. Artists have harder time selling commissions. Musicians make less money. All big corporations shove AI down people's throats and those who use It erode trust people had on books, art, and music.

It hurts you too.

How about you try to focus on your craft and having fun instead? Share the things you are interested in in here, and speak out on the wonderful stories you got instead.

You can contibute to sharing things here and making the algorithm see more book posts.
Here you never know what goes "viral", but usually it is a passion project, or a thing of whimsy.

It's not AI that steals anything from me. It's people's ignorance that destroys all my joy on creating things.
It's always humans that destroy other humans.

But if you have passion, it will shine through and catch and audience.

But it seems that you are really honed in on comparisons instead of focusing on your craft. And comparison is the thief of joy, as they say.

Your english is really good too by the way. I bet you could write using it if you wanted to.

It is my second language too and I use it to write my books.

It is another skill a person can learn and we all start by being terrible at it.

But we artists can support each other, grow, and enjoy the process of creation collectively.

Don't let AI steal that from you.

Marketing is hard, hell I know that super well, but one should keep in mind that the stories matter because they come from you.

Also, you can pay real artists to make you art that promotes your writing. You can talk about your stories and hype them up.

And word-work doesn't matter to anyone.

(In MY OWN language, I have to say. I hate English and I'm bad at it. But, well - according to the EP my bad English does not matter, so I can still ask that 6k account why I never see them boost any small, bad-writing author and thereby supporting them).

And still having an image boosted by a big account that fits into one post will be much more successfull than trying to get that same big account share a post with a link to a website where they'd have to read a story with 6k words.
I've even started to cut my stories into easy-to-read 1k-parts and still it's too much.

Another made stick figure sketches of comics and quickly gained following because of consistency and passion.

I've followed small indies since I was 20, and they followed me back because passion recognizes passion. I foreged friendships and community that wants to support me back.

Don't stop making art. It matters

And now that it is a business, my goal is still to do it because I love it and sharing that love to others and that resonates more than selling a product.

People don't want AI, they want to connect with the art, the story, the growth of a person.

That's not the case for words and reading.

I do these things because I am passionate about them and I want to grow and be better at them with each piece I create - that is the thing that draws people in. The passion, the drive.

I have seen people get big following with stick figures and doodles, and unrefined stories because of their passion.

It's still capitalism. Less than 1% of artists or authors ever got enough money to live from this.

Serious question. Because I am one of those authors who are currently giving up. Nobody misses it.

I don't have to know how to shoot the cannon to tell the crew, "put fire on that hill, as much fire as possible."

These days I see a lot of
"Why do you pick up a guitar and play when you are not half as good as the guy on this youtube video? Let's watch the video instead!"

This is literally false.

Again, EVERY person who makes art, music, dance, code, design, etc... ALL those people that you like, were unabashedly bad at it first. EVERY single one. The fact that you think that never happens is exactly what AI has stolen from you.

Being bad at that first.