@knowprose @Nickiquote Same here!

@Nickiquote Thank you for your service, because it has pleased me and, judging by the thread, many other people too to have this much more interesting matter to engage with.

@Nickiquote This whole thread

@PKYo @JensJot Interesting that this trope is prevalent in films too. I wonder if it's sometimes because the films are based on books.

@kvadraat @beach I was just going to say the same - it is wonderful, I love seeing those posts, seeing what people are learning to make or are making.

@louisa_ It drives me bananas. I abandoned this book the moment it happened. And yes, more annoying still when the character's book is presented as some deep profound masterpiece of a work. The self-indulgent self-confidence of (often) Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts graduates, I think.

@matt Ha, yes

I’ve been warning the publishing industry about this for decades, but they never listen to me. Do not print characters’ books inside the real book. Better still, do not let characters write books. In this case, I was caught unawares, because the characters were farmers and gardeners and post office workers, then half-way through, a child grew up and became A Writer.

I was enjoying this book tremendously. Both the story and the incredible writing. Like, I was comparing it to *William Trevor* - that kind of writing, that good. So I was reading along, minding my own business, then suddenly on page 131, wham! One of the characters became a writer. And started writing a book. And they put that book inside this book. In italics. I mean. For pity's sake. Like elf songs, only worse.

#Books

@mosgaard I only understand about 23% of the words in that question, but boosted it because In The Fediverse I Trust. The more niche and specialist the question, the more likely someone has the answer. I hope you do get your answer!

@reynir Det gør jeg gerne, hvis jeg kan komme i tanke om, hvor der findes en. Jeg sidder her helt blankt. Ved du, hvor der findes en i cirka Aarhus C? Er fotoet mon fra Marselisborg eller Øen?

@bazbt3 @Szescstopni All of this resonates. I keep thinking back, especially to the early 2000s, and thinking how good and promising it all was then. If only we'd realised what was ahead.

@NicelyManifest Agreed. On all counts.

@mattdm It does seem deliberate, the choice to give it a pair of untraceable names as apparent sources. I was sure and am sure it is manipulated and fake. I just don't know how to 100% prove something is manipulated, which some people would like. A verifiable source of the original photo would prove it is real, but none has been forthcoming. You are right about the other major problem - making it easy to deny stuff you don't want to see. These are serious problems we have now.

@rq4c Let's hope we do decide to do something about it, something radical, something real.

@xinit Oh that is even more infuriating - people making more stuff up to cover the stuff they already made up.

@zulutoo Me too - I am so fed up with it too. And so sad to see good human photographs being hit in the backlash, being asked by good-faith people if their great images are AI.

@robinsyl Same here. It saddens me that we are being manipulated into becoming sceptical, that we can't even just assume a basic level of trust when we see a nice moment of joy shared online.

@NatureMC Thanks for great fact-checking - including for taking the time both to do it and share it.

@stekopf @FrutigerAero00 @VerenaRupp

@soundsafari A good and depressing comparison - yes, I can see that happening too.