Novelist and AI PhD on saving human fiction from the AI flood
Smart_Fly_5783 · reddit · 2026-09-19
An author who is both an AI specialist and an indie novelist asks whether high-volume, low-cost AI-assisted publishing will make human-written fiction harder to discover, especially in crowded self-publishing markets.
They distinguish using AI for research/professional purposes from using it to produce prose — the latter changes the nature of authorship for those who value the act of writing itself. The piece advocates preferring human authorship and sparks discussion: should readers be told when AI was involved, and what would honest, non-punitive disclosure look like?
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