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Spotting and removing, yes.

Writing the damn book should be the job of the author.

The author's job is to write the actual novel instead of pasting it from an AI, but in this case yes, it looks like the editor was as lazy as the author and didn't do his own job.

A lot of these books are self-published.

Editors aren't perfect. They miss stuff sometimes.

The editors are probably using AI too.

Or MS-Word autocorrect. I recently read a self-published book where the daughter of the author was the editor. While the book was nicely done and well written, what to me seemed obvious auto-corrects were painful for being the wrong word in the context of the sentence.

Editors needs to check the auto-corrections AND have language skills AND attention to detail. It is easy to ruin the reading experience.

My next SaaS-startup is "Use AI to detect AI-slop! Detect prompts and LLM responses that someone forgot to delete! Fix em-dashes!".

Anyone want to give me a billion dollars?

> Anyone want to give me a billion dollars?

Sold! I'll save at least twice that by firing all the human writers and editors!