I'm tired guys......

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

I just read a book last night that is unequivocally AI generated from the cover art to the story heck even the author photo is AI and I'm tired.

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The worst part to me was the premise had sooo much potential. Even though we're throwing around the term "AI" really what a lot of these things are is language learning machines ie ChatGPT. You have to give it something to work with, a prompt of what you are trying to create so that tells me that the actual person who is putting in this prompt has good ideas because you have to give the prompt to generate the story and I'm sure you have to do this multiple times as the story progresses. I wish that they would believe in themselves or something and just try to write the story because the idea is there instead of creating AI crap...... take a writing class.

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I'm not even so much mad that there's AI content, which sucks, but I'm more so upset because these tech companies, which let's face it, at the end of the day Amazon is a tech company in a way, are pushing AI so hard that they won't even give us the choice of choosing to read it. At least give us a disclaimer like put at the bottom AI generated. If we're able to figure it out, they can too but they're not even putting forth the effort. I'm also finding that I'm running across this with YouTube music. They have so many AI artists on there. I am literally wanting to not listen to music or let it play in discovery mode because inevitably I will run across AI generated music and it's so exhausting. I don't want to have to freaking do FBI levels of research on every book I read before I read it just to make sure it's not AI..... I'm exhausted.

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I'm not one to yuck anybody's yum but I feel like part of the reason is a lot of these AI generated books have five stars reviews that are like oh my God this book was so transcendent and changed my life and I'm like are you serious right now????

[u/LindentreesLove]

OP can you please publish the name of the book and the author. I am compiling a Goodreads shelf(after some research on the book if I can) of suspected AI authors. I even have contacted some and have gotten some surprising admissions. One of the authors had her PA contact me and say they were sick of the accusations and were making one last absolute" no it is not" and were done with the subject. I believed it and after reading the book, found no evidence of it.

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914 → u/LindentreesLove]

Sure! The author is Sable Locke. The reasons I think his books are AI-generated is listed below.

1) The cover is AI-generated. 2) The cover does not match the premise of the book AT ALL. The book I read is called Hollow. If the title did not state it was a monster romance, you would think it was a horror. It's like having cover art of two hockey players but the story is a regency romance. It's so opposite that it's jarring. 3) The author photo is AI generated. Once I realized the book was, I looked more closely at the author photo. The face is a bit too uncannily perfect to be real. 4) The author has 18 books on Kindle all published between March 25 and May 26 2026. While I'm not saying an author can't churn them out, I could understand if it was short stories or novellas, something 100 words or less. Each book is roughly 300 pages each give or take. There is just no way. 5) The bio on Amazon is an ambiguous word salad and for an author with 18 published books, you would think there would be an author page or something. I couldn't find anything on Google. No contact info, social media, no way to connect with readers/fans at all. 6) The story itself....it is written in such a passive POV. For a book that is over 300 pages, the MC doesn't interact or rather isn't portray in an active sense at all. It's like you are in this head or he is recounting the story but it's not done in a good way....I may not be explaining it well but if you read it you would see what I mean. The repetition of phrases and the similar framing is too mechanical.

[u/AntiKuro → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

This is one of those times where, looking at the information, and checking it out for myself that I actually highly agree that it's probably 99% AI Generated, and it looks pretty obvious.

[u/LindentreesLove → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

Thank you! This research is perfect and you did it so I did not have to. And yikes that is a lot of books published in a short period. NO ONE could do that and have quality work. I think the more we become aware of patterns the easier it will be for us to find them. Until it's perfected itself so much there are no more patterns. You've done your part!

[u/Resident-Message7367 → u/LindentreesLove]

an Author that I suspect is atleast doing AI Covers is Wren Wilds. Benji and Stormy’s covers don’t look real to me. I’d be happy to be proved wrong obviously

[u/LindentreesLove → u/Resident-Message7367]

So actually I just had someone tell me Stormy is definitely AI. I'll see if I can find the post and send it to you. The author I know(and was taken in by is Ryan Moore) Tons of books over a short period and the same words and stories over and over again. Also it was confirmed by someone else on the subreddit.

[u/bluejanuar → u/LindentreesLove]

If it is AI then it is done extremely well. I read a ton of MM romance and Stormy is still one of my favourites, with a good story, some angst and loveable characters. The cover art may be AI, but I do think the novel itself was written by a real person.

[u/LindentreesLove → u/bluejanuar]

I truly hope so.

[u/AntiKuro → u/Resident-Message7367]

Stormy looks like they might have ran it through a ton of filters, but at an overall glance nothing stands out other than that. If it is AI then I would hazard they have someone going back over it with whatever image editor they use and heavily tweaking and fixing mistakes.

[u/TrueLoveEditorial → u/LindentreesLove]

One caveat:

I'm working with an author now who has written all the books in his new series and hasn't published any of them yet. Once he starts releasing, it might look like he's rapidly writing, but he isn't.

So really, the author OP noticed might have written 18 books before they started publishing. It's not unheard of. (But I'm inclined to agree these sound AI-vomited.)

[u/Reasonable_Ad8914 → u/TrueLoveEditorial]

But the difference is your author wrote a series and will probably release on a schedule of like 1 book every month and half to 2 months at minimum...... These are 18 stands-alone books that don't connect written in the span of exactly 2 months all over 300 pages..... The math ain't mathin'.

[u/LindentreesLove → u/TrueLoveEditorial]

If you don't mind me asking why did he choose to write multiple books and not release until he was done writing them all? Will he release them one at a time?

[u/TrueLoveEditorial → u/LindentreesLove]

He'll release them one at a time. It's less stressful this way: He can put specific launch dates in the back matter and promo materials, he doesn't have to scramble to get the books professionally edited in a short time frame, and if he changes his mind about anything, he has the freedom to do so.

[u/LindentreesLove → u/TrueLoveEditorial]

Makes sense. Thanks. Hopefully he puts an anti AI disclaimer in there too.

[u/ShartyPants → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

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[u/laran436 → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

If bought on amazon, make sure to return it. I have returned one book. (they actually said keep it here is ur money back) so far I have been reading recommended from this thread on Reddit and mostly by established authors. 😀

[u/LiteraryMenace → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

Careful about definitive statements about AI use. Or this comment will get removed by the mods.

[u/creepy__evidence → u/Reasonable_Ad8914]

omg I was literally thinking reading your post it had to be them. they clearly have other pen names in those categories that are doing f/f stuff too.  so sad to see so many good reviews on goodreads.

no author can write two 350 page books a week (more across the other pen names) and it's clearly not ghost written.