Career writer asks Reddit how to critique her stepfather-in-law's AI-generated novel
Good-Fig5330 · reddit · 2026-08-21
A career content strategist and aspiring novelist posts on Reddit for advice: her stepfather-in-law, eight months unemployed, has been churning out AI-generated country albums and leadership posts, and now an AI-written novel he intends to self-publish — and he's sent her the manuscript for her "thoughts," writer to writer.
Her verdict: the prose is passable because the prompting was decent, but there's no character arc, barely any plot, and repeated AI-flag descriptions. She has strong convictions against passing off gen-AI work as one's own, her mother-in-law begs her to "be nice," and she asks what she owes him in the inevitable conversation.
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