This isn't a chapter, this is a simple notice that I'm taking a break from Royal Road for a week or two because of the outright witchcraft-hunt happening in reviews and pms.

For the third time today I've been accused of:

1. being an ai ?

2. stealing my drawings from some website ???

3. using gptchat to write my books based on random art taken from somewhere ?????

Look at this shit:

and:

This isn't one person either, it's a few people doing this shit. I don't know if its the recent AI-tag announcement or what, but seriously people need to stop with murderhobo pitchfork against writers and artists who have been making books and painting digitally since early 2000's, way before AIs even existed as a thing.

Behold! This is one of my earliest Photoshop paintings posted on deviantart, note the date:

Now, lets break down how a typical character illustration for the Armorer is made:

1. A Photoshop sketch:

2. My personally-trained AI assistant attempts a coloring pass:

As you can see it's VERY fucking potato. She tried. Note: Current AIs while capable of making a random single girl art with a big booty, CANNOT make three very specific and completely distinctive characters in one scene, nor blue scars on faces, nor the crystalline hair that the Armorer often has, at a resolution of 20x20k pixels.

After a day of digital painting in Photoshop to hammer out the details:

Yes, there's a few of basic pure-AI arts in Armorer, but they're made using an AI that I've personally trained on thousands of my own paintings, having spend nearly SIX months designing her myself.

How do I have so much art? Well, I've been drawing and writing my webcomic since 2005, here's a copy of it on Royal Road:

It has over FIVE THOUSAND illustrations [made from 2005-2023]

You can see about a thousand of them on my deviantart in HD, along with traditional art and photography posted since 2004 with short stories written underneath in the same style that I write my books in now.

But no, apparently I'm an AI!

Never mind the fact that I've over 1.2 million words in the SAME FUCKING universe of 8 fictions just on Royal Road, written YEARS before chatgpt came out:

Apparently the fact that I post pictures of my daughter under some chapters of my books doesn't prove anything either:

According to the comments of this nutcase, my daughter is apparently also AI-made:

STOP. GET SOME HELP. ARE THESE AIs IN THE ROOM WITH YOU NOW?

More than 300 years ago, twenty people were legally put to death for the “crime” of witchcraft.

Clearly humanity hasn't grown up one bit since then.

The new witch trials is apparently "you're an AI".