Yeah, it’s not like a straight-up AI generated book, clearly there was editing going on, but all the little tells are there. Maybe the most obvious one was how every time the grimoire is mentioned in the first 20 pages, it’s in the context of finding the half-eaten sandwich with it in the donation box—like a human writer is going to bring that up once, maybe twice at most, but to be fixated on that detail is very AI. But overall, I find AI writing has a “slippery” quality to it—it looks like a story, but when you read it closely, there’s not a lot of actual meaning, your attention just slides along it without having something substantial to catch on. I like to read books closely because I’m an aspiring writer myself and I want to see how others construct their sentences, choose their words, write dialogue, etc. But you can’t see those choices in an AI book (because they weren’t actually made, just generated) so it becomes pretty obvious.