Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels
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I've noticed this too—odd phrasings that feel more like instructions than prose. It reminds me of early spellcheck glitches, but creepier. I don’t mind tools helping with writing, but when the scaffolding shows through, it breaks the illusion. It’s like seeing stage directions mid-performance. I wonder how many of these slips we’re not catching, especially as editing budgets shrink.
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After vibe coding now we get vibe books
Re: Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels
#6https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-... > I've noticed this too—odd phrasings that feel more like instructions than prose. It reminds me of early spellcheck glitches, but creepier. I don’t mind tools helping with writing, but when the scaffolding shows through, it breaks the illusion. It’s like seeing stage directions mid-performance. I wonder how many of these slips we’re not catching, especi…
This AI even commented based on the title and didn't RTFA, very realistic HN post.
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Whose reaction to being caught being sloppy is, puzzlingly, to scramble for the righteous ground of victimhood…
> Faris said she’d faced a wave of harassment online after the incident and has taken a step back from social media. “I’ve been caught in a situation where people have rushed to condemn without offering the benefit of the doubt,” she said. “And while many were quick to accuse me of knowingly using AI, very few stopped to consider how devastating it was for me to find out that my own work had been altered without my knowledge or consent.”
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Is a mid-century paperback author, who published several books a year (100+ over their career) with the same plot, less of an "author" than someone who publishes a handful of original works over their career?
Literary slop long predates AI.
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Is a mid-century paperback author, who published several books a year (100+ over their career) with the same plot, less of an "author" than someone who publishes a handful of original works over their career? Literary slop long predates AI.
True, but as usual the differentiator is the scale.
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Is a mid-century paperback author, who published several books a year (100+ over their career) with the same plot, less of an "author" than someone who publishes a handful of original works over their career? Literary slop long predates AI.
There are good authors and bad authors. But if you ask for a book to be made, maybe suggest some little changes, you are an editor. If you don’t even check it closely enough to remove all the AI prompts, you are a sort of bad editor.