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> 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.”
> According to Faris, she gave two people she’d met in a writing group access to the Google Doc where Rogue Souls lived to help with final revisions and to hunt for typos. She said one of them used AI to fix sentences without her knowledge. “I want to be clear: I never approved the use of AI and I condemn it because [of the usual talking points...]
She could just publish the Google Docs document for people to review the edit history of. Not a Google Workspaces whiz, but my impression is that edit history is immutably retained, so unless one could reasonably speculate Google being in on the con, this would conclusively prove (support) her version of the story, particularly if the timelines work out. I wonder if she'd also have a legal case against the person who made the change.
Literary slop long predates AI.
It's a business like those assembly line Kinkade paintings. (I actually have one of them on the wall, and like it.)
In high school, I decided to read all the James Bond novels. After reading about 8 of them, I realized they all had the same plot, and abandoned that project.
The way to make money is to find a schtick that works and repeat and market it.
There’s a funny Behind the Bastards podcast episode on Kinkade, who apparently was kind of an asshole IRL.
Meanwhile other authors shovel out the exact same story (I found literal cut and paste more than once).
But ultimately books aren't just about the plot (some don't even have one), but also about the execution.