So, boys and girls, what have we learned this year?
Mostly that, for self-pubbed authors who have no idea what they’re doing A.I.-generated illustration can be an adequate (or at least more adequate) replacement for what they were doing for themselves.
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Bleargh!
That’s not to say AI will make it adequate, mind; but it usually will make it better.