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Ask for a story twice, get the same story
Nathanael Co-founder & developer, MiraeStudio.id
In March 2026 Hachette pulled a horror novel called Shy Girl after a detector flagged it as about 78% AI-generated. It was the first commercially published novel cancelled over AI. Around the same time, roughly one in five of 14,000 self-published Amazon novels came back as largely AI-written. So what does give AI fiction away?
The common answer is that AI writing is "too consistent" and "has no soul". We read the research behind that claim in full, appendices included. Some of it holds up and some of it is backwards. The part that holds up is useful to anyone who writes with AI, us included.
