So I got this indie book from a book fair, because I'm always looking to support new authors being one myself.
It was quite fun in the beginning. Clearly written by an amateur, but the writing style was fun. But some pages later, something felt … off. I tried my best to ignore it. If I could pretend hard enough, I could make myself believe it wasn't AI.
But more pages in now, I can't pretend anymore. It's just paragraphs and paragraphs of word salad and cringey generic AI phrases.
I literally feel like crying. Idk why. This is the first time it happened to me, and I now know why readers are always complaining about finding an AI written book. I have never felt so betrayed in my life. Never.
by FantasticHufflepuff
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that’s such a disappointing experience, especially when you were trying to support indie authors. that bait-and-switch feeling is the worst since starting human and then clearly switching to ai partway through is almost worse than it being ai from the start. totally valid to feel betrayed about it. if you’re comfortable sharing which book it was (even just vaguely), it might help other readers avoid the same letdown.
Name and shame, then maybe they’ll stop.
this frightens me so much I almost don’t want to read anything new anymore. But it’s so unfair towards young authors.
This is so dramatic.
Give the appropriate review so others don’t spend money on it.
More likely it was just a poorly written book by an amateur author.
Oh, gosh, that sounds awful. Maybe when you’re feeling up to it, the next book you read should be a classic you haven’t read before. Something you *know* was written by a person.
This has not yet happened to me. I haven’t read too many newer books lately unless it was from an author I trusted. Not in an effort to avoid AI generated nonsense, but maybe that should be a reason for me now.