In my timelines, most of the literary discourse has been occupied with debates about the Shy Girl AI scandal in which Hachette cancelled the republication of an initially self-pubbed book by Mia Ballard over alleged AI use. The author’s defense seems to be that she paid an acquaintance to edit her book and that person rewrote the book with AI, thus she shouldn’t be penalized.
(AI questions aside, I find it hard to sympathize with an author noticing someone else had “changed a lot of the wordings” throughout a manuscript and then… publishing it anyway without even doing a final pass to see if you agree with the edits. If the author isn’t responsible for the writing in their book, well, what are we even doing here?)
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