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How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem

The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.

New York Times Alexandra Alter

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  • @duncanweldon Duncan Weldon on bluesky
    One of the more depressing paragraphs in a throughly depressing read.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...  [image]
  • @parismarx.com Paris Marx on bluesky
    I would never argue all self-publishing is bad, but I realized years ago that Amazon designed KDP for exactly this purpose: to incentivize people to adopt new tech to churn out more slop titles in a clear attack on the publishing industry with little regard for readers or even th…
  • @edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky
    This is straight up manufacturing consent now [embedded post]
  • r/RomanceBooks r on reddit
    New York Times article about AI and romance
  • @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x
    People want to read slop! And I'm willing to bet that the AI books are not noticeably worse than the books she was churning out “by hand” regardless.
  • @brandyljensen Brandy Jensen on x
    jesus christ [image]
  • @sarahweinman.com Sarah Weinman on bluesky
    “If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who's going to win the race?”  God this is bleak