Complain Factory

a google ad from 1999 promising no ads in search

so... incredibly ... accurate‼️

Big Five Editors: it’s time to shift your resources from publishing conventional novels that are likely to be AI (or accused of being AI) to publishing unconventional novels that are clearly not AI.

If you want demonstrable proof that you’re immersed in the most powerful propaganda system in human history, just realize literally nobody can afford anything, which in previous eras woulda created revolutionary conditions but in this era is barely a topic of public conversation.

This would mean something if we lived in a society that punished rich people.

Absolutely wild that YouTube just straight up will not show you what you search for.

And if I say majority of yall using ChatGPT because it’s the only time you’ve been told you’re right or smart, what yall gone do?

times square is such a perfect accidental parody of u.s. culture if it was a fictional location in a movie people would call it too on-the-nose

I think the root of the problem is that publishers are buying self published slop that sells well without vetting it for quality. This book would probably not have made it through a traditional editing process, but Hachette just wanted a shortcut to a hit.

pretty much every apartment listing is now “digitally staged” with AI-generated furniture that makes it impossible to get any realistic sense of scale, but today i saw one so insane that even someone as sub-mental as a real estate broker should have realized something was off

Things I still want to know re: The "Shy Girl" Scandal 👇🏻 1. How did an AI-written manuscript escape the scrutiny of an agent, editor, and Big 5 publisher? 2. What methods were used to definitively determine the book was written using AI? (And I don't want to hear, "It's obvious!" I've worked with plenty of authors whose work I was suspicious of having been written using AI, but I'd still never go so far as to flat-out accuse them of having done so without actual proof, usually in the form of a baked-in prompt—which, yes, has happened before. So, I'd really like to know how Hachette actually determined this to be AI-generated beyond public outcry. Because if all it takes is a few witch hunters to yell, "AI SLOP!" then I'm sorry, but that's equally problematic.) 3. Did the publisher think the public was too stupid to notice, or is trad pub really *that* overworked/understaffed that they were unable to catch something so obvious, even after multiple rounds of edits?

Mark Twain wrote “King Leopold’s Soliloquy” about the Belgian genocide in Congo and despite being most famous author on Earth no one would publish it, because he was talking about black lives. What a disgrace to honor a racist jerkoff in his name

going to a concert is supposed to be like when you’re going to a museum or the cinema btw, it’s supposed to be fun casual night out enjoying an art form, you’re not supposed to take out loans or max out your credit card for it,, wake up people

The lazy and untalented have always despised creatives and will never understand or appreciate craft.

Children as young as 10 are being raped before or IN ICE detention centers. And they are reporting the rape of children as 'underage migrants testing positive for pregnancy.' Then moving them to Texas where abortions are illegal. Nazi level abuse.

Aileen Wuornos was a severely abused and traumatized woman who killed men that tried to rape her. Her father was a pedophile who raped a 7 year old and later committed suicide. Her mother abandoned her as at the age of 4 resulting in her being adopted by her grandparents which she later accused her grandfather of sexually abusing her. At 14 she was raped by a friend of her grandfather and became pregnant. Her grandfather forced her to give up the baby for adoption. She struggled with addiction and undiagnosed mental illnesses her whole life due to her childhood trauma. She eventually became a sex worker to support herself and began killing in self defense after potential clients she’d turn down tried to overpower her and rape her. She was a tortured soul who never had a fair chance at life. She wasn’t crazy. She was mentally ill and needed help. The system failed her and she was sentenced to death rather than given rehabilitation opportunities. Her case will always devastate me.

Children don't read because their parents don't read. We'll soon be led by an entire generation that has never cracked open a book. Not a single book in the home. This frightens me more than the idea of nuclear threat or a foreign power attacking us. We're imploding from within.

The nonstop AI evangelism on Twitter reeks of, "we're so committed to this because we are in too deep. Please bro, just pay for the premium version."