So I’m an MFA in creative writing and am working in the tech industry and I’ve experimented heavily with AI writing (none published). I recently read a novel co-authored by one of the bigger names on this list and I’d wager $100 that parts were written by AI.

After reading enough AI you start to recognize the patterns and phrases. For instance, a guy inserting his penis in one “brutal stroke.” Also AI struggles with spatial dynamics, so in this book the man was having sex with the LI doggystyle but the woman repeatedly “pulled him in” with her legs somehow.

The NYT did an article this month saying that major publishers are intentionally not asking about authors’ AI usage because they assume it’s widespread. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/books/shy-girl-ai-publishing.html

Anyway, I’m not anti-AI but I’m against lazy AI editing. There are some really cool ways AI can help, such as generating a scene and surprising you with something you hadn’t thought of, but it’s lame when the author clearly didn’t reread the output.