‘It’s like the wild west’: how AI has rocked the literary world

Summary

With authors losing lucrative deals and writers removed from prize shortlists, accusations of AI use are sending shock waves through the publishing industry. Is it too late to turn the tide on machine writing? T he romance novelist Coral Hart got her break writing books for Mills & Boon, the publisher of bodice-ripper paperbacks. In 2012, she decided to dip her toe in self-publishing. She felt drawn to dark romance, a subgenre featuring twisted, toxic love stories that was taking off online but that publishers didn’t want to touch. Three years later, things were going well enough that she…

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