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That's disturbing. Beta readers should read for free, and how outrageous to charge and use AI. That gives me PTSD!

>Can I trust beta readers on Fiverr? It's risky. I paid three beta readers on Fiverr to read my manuscript and two of them clearly used AI, even though they swore they wouldn't. 100% on AI detectors. Probably they didn't even read it. The...

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn

All good. Like I said, life gets in the way :) Besides, I've been ghosted lots of times. I'm onto the next book anyway. The MG market is dead.

Life has a habit of getting in the way at the worst times. My wife her job while I was beta reading your book and I had to pick up extra hours to pay the rent. Missed your deadline by some margin. Sorry

They wouldn't. Pete won't tolerate it, but I've never had a problem on Litopia. TBH, you should expect a level of ghosting from beta readers; our lives get in the way and you can't guess when that'll happen. Start a thread, asking who has time...

I think it's entirely legit to worry about someone, and probably someone thinking they're being a good reader/helper, running it or sections of it through AI. Now, if found out, I'm not sure those people have a future on Litopia

Also, reading on kindle is safe. It's just a file type conversion. No ai involved

Litopian beta readers won't upload it to AI. I think as a collective, we're quite anti-ai. Couldn't comment on Fiverr, but strangers are rarely trustworthy.

Thank you all! I shall mooch about a bit here, find all the corners and nooks, and get started in the course of the next week. Thanks again for making me welcome!

Welcome aboard, Joe :) If you want help tweaking the query you're hawking around, pop it in The Lab. Look forward to seeing you there :)

Just introducing myself! Online I tend to go by the pseudonym 'enistello', but you can call me Joe. It's great to be here, and I feel lucky to have landed somewhere that's been an online community for so long. Litopia/The Colony seems to be...

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