What bothers me about this is that the author fraudulently presented the book as her own work. Doesn't matter to me if she used AI or hired a ghost writer - claiming you wrote something you didn't write is fraud IMO. I've never understood how ghost writers are legal.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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or hired a ghost writer
Isn't that the entire point of hiring a ghost writer?
Isn't what the entire point?
It's bad enough that they are using AI to create their content, but don't they even proof-read it before uploading it? It seems like the most basic requirement, but they don't even seem to be bothering with that.
Hate this title, how about:
"A novel by author Lena McDonald, accidentally leaves AI prompt in published version."
Or, more accurately, 'a novel that is at most partially by Lena McDonald'.
lol, way better!
🔥👄🔥 There should be severe consequences for this.
It would suck for the author, Lena McDonald, if anyone who searched for
"Lena McDonald author"
found out about this story.
I get what you're doing but they can just change pennames
The vibe coders and every person using an LLM can't complain about it. It's fair game.
Well, you certainly can complain about it and still use it, when your livelihood requires you to either use the tech, or get left behind by those who do. Speed and turnaround time wins over skill and quality.
The future is now, right?
Leave your guess for how long we've got till AI apps are spammed everywhere.
Also for no reason in particular:
My son and I laughed our asses off over that presentation. Brilliant but kind of disgusting.
They don't mention enshittification - I think Doctorow popularized the term later - but this is a perfect example of a process that contributes to the phenomenon.
I had never thought about it in these terms, but they repeatedly mentioned curation, and it's so clearly a fundamental topic in today's online world.
This was an incredible video, thanks for sharing. It gave me a new perspective to consider.
AI can be ethically used in writing. This is not an example of that. People need to get into the "AI as a tool" mindset. And capitalism causing greed is part of the issue of course.
We could also use a model or 2 trained on ethical data.
Until then its pretty easy to argue all ai is unethical.
Would citing all the training sources satisfy the spirit of attribution licenses like CC-BY?
Writing is a rare form of communication, borderline unique to humans. Because of that, to me, it’s fundamentally unethical to have “AI” “write” anything. It’s insulting to me on a base level, particularly when used for communication.