He did know. Another member told him on his WIP thread he couldn’t use AI. He removed some but not all of the AI content in response then submitted it anyway. As for why he confirmed it, perhaps he knew he couldn’t defend the evidence from the images, perhaps he just decided to be honest. I’ll give him that, at least in the end he owned up to it.
It’s hardly risky. COG is refunding anyone affected by the pulled game. If you mean you just don’t want to purchase anything off a different author because it might be bad, then you’ll probably miss out on some great games on HG games. That’s on you if it’s what you want, if not, try the demo. If you really are worried, only buy the ones through steam (although you’ll miss a lot of games that way as only a % are released there) that have had copyediting and have the steam refund process if you buy but decide reading past the demo you don’t want to finish it after all.
They’ve just withdrawn the game, issued refunds and an official statement. The author in question signed a legal contract saying they agreed to the terms of publishing- So basically they broke the contract. It is their fault, but COG does need to put more checks and balances in place. This is the first time COG has had to do this before. There is more going on behind the scenes but they need to work out how to try to prevent this from now on and that won’t happen overnight. I’d say that’s working towards taking responsibility.
I share some of my work for free. There is nothing stopping any of the HG authors from having released their work for free in places like itch. But if you want games of hundreds of thousands of words with the author putting in a tonne of time into editing and testing themselves and are frequently taking over a year to make… you’re unlikely to get much of that available for free. (They turn up occasionally, but they’re not consitently being released like they are here.) You also won’t get anything available on steam because that costs money. You won’t have any games getting copyedited. You might as well say the same of Amazon since they host books on their website and don’t read them all first. HG is quite a different platform to COG although they get confused all the time.
I put up a thread a while back with a list to a whole heap of free and paid image resources. You don’t have to use AI.
Okay, I looked it up and here’s the thing, yes, the text is stilted, and the story meanders at the same time that it is too hasty (an oxymoron, I know). We tell Father we’re going to magic school, Father says “ok”, next we’re already there and the guard (?) takes us to the headmaster. “You want to be a mage?” “Yes.” “Then pay 500 monies.”
Like, in hindsight, I can see how it’s been generated. The description lingers on random details of the scene while the dialogue and plot happen too fast. But! If I didn’t know, I’d think it was just badly written, not necessarily generated. Herein lies the problem. How to confidently tell it apart?
Anyone or anything claiming to have a high rate of detecting AI generated text will quietly not mention the high false positive rate. It’s a tough situation.
I knew something just felt off about the book. I mean there are so many things that just end in dead ends. You only ever get 1 power, you get a little animal, or big animal/mythical beast, companion and then they almost never show back up, and funally Henry dies every single time so whats the point of building up reputation with him? I hope that authors learn for this example and dont use AI in their books
If you’ve downloaded the game as an individual app, I don’t know for sure that they can make it disappear from your mobile device, but it won’t be supported (no updates) and you won’t ever be able to install it on any device it’s not already installed on now.
If you bought the game on the CoG website or the HG omnibus, it’s already gone.
How to confidently tell it apart?