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The Fallout of Indie Authors and AI Purity Spirals

Are you tired of being praised for your entrepreneurial writing spirit?

Are you sick of supporting other indie authors in the pursuit of connecting directly with readers and giving them the precise book they’ve been craving?

Have you tried a purity spiral?

Now, I know what you’re saying: “But Kris, purity spirals are for politically active people! Not for artists like us.”

Au contraire, my darling.

For the low, low cost of a tweet (bonus points for tagging an author you’ve never spoken to, know nothing about, and whose work you’ve never read), you too can join the thousands who use purity spirals to alienate fellow authors and piss off your readers.

You can start today!

Seriously though…

I’ve talked a lot about AI recently and people have their opinions. In all sincerity, I’m not writing this to change yours.

I want to caution you against shooting yourself in the foot, especially if you’re working on your first book.

At the end of May, there was a great kerfuffle regarding the winner of the SP…