Like many on Pagebound, I am staunchly anti-AI, for all the reasons we know about.

I have been very engaged with learning about authors who may use this and eliminating them from my TBR.

I am also a publishing person by trade, and have studied the evolution of the English language, as well as my decade experience of copyediting and working with the written word.

There is a scary intersection, in my opinion, where readers are now throwing around accusations of AI usage in books that "sound like AI." I admit, I am a skeptic, and am hesitant to believe anything is real anymore. But I do think it's alarming that anyone can accuse a writer of AI, even if they haven't ever used it, because of their use of em dashes (em dashes till I die!!!) or style of language used. It's something I've been thinking about more and more, and I don't really have a thesis to this post other than to start a discussion that perhaps there should be some more nuance or careful approach when claiming a book is AI.

(This post was inspired by my seeing someone post in a forum that "this book sounds AI" when I, in fact, worked on it pre-publication process, and know for a fact it isn't.)

(And I even hesitate writing this, because I'm SO anti-AI, and I want the whole system to crumble! But I also don't want legit writers to be taken down in the process.)