AI Prompts in Published Novels?

Readers are discovering AI-generated editing notes left inside finished books—and authors are scrambling to explain.

“My goal was always to entertain, not to mislead,” says Lena McDonald, after fans found prompts like, “rewrite in the style of J. Bree”…still embedded in her novel, Darkhollow Academy: Year 2.

Which leads to questions on AI ethics and policy. Now the literary world is asking: Where’s the line between AI assistance and authorship? When is using a tool going too far?

And it’s not just fiction. The Chicago Sun-Times accidentally printed an AI-written summer guide full of books that don’t exist (courtesy of a Hearst subsidiary).

Read the full story on AI in novels via the Fast Company article: https://www.fastcompany.com/91341390/ai-prompts-left-in-published-books-authors-respond-to-controversy And the AI newspaper scandal via the 404 Media article: https://www.404media.co/viral-ai-generated-summer-guide-printed-by-chicago-sun-times-was-made-by-magazine-giant-hearst/

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