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Paramveer Dhillon

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · last wk.

A glut of AI-written fiction is drowning out human authors, new research shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

Screenshot of text from NYT story by Alexandra Alter:

Jess Michaels, a historical romance writer, has released 117 novels since she started writing full time in 1999, most of them self-published. She’s built a devoted readership, and has had 10 USA Today best sellers.

But lately, sales have been so dismal that she might stop publishing.

“The glut of the A.I. work makes discoverability very difficult,” Michaels said. “You’re talking about directly pirating my work, putting it into an engine so that you can produce a ‘Jess Michaels-type book,’ and then glutting the market with it.

“I cannot tell you how soul-crushing it is,” she added. “It essentially erases actual authors.”

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · last wk.

More than half of novels self-published on Amazon now appear to include some amount of AI assistance, according to the study by @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, @xinyuel.bsky.social, Jane C. Ginsburg & @dhillonp.bsky.social. Good @nytimes.com writeup by Alexandra Alter: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

After setting aside books that weren’t selling, the team looked at a random sample of 14,419 self-published novels released on Amazon between January 2023 and March 2026 using A.I. detection software from Pangram, which many computer scientists consider to be one of the most reliable programs of its kind. The study found that in 2,168 of those books, more than 50 percent of the prose was A.I. generated, and that 970 of the novels were more than 90 percent A.I.-generated.

The researchers estimate that the sales of all novels in their sample including at least 25 percent A.I.-generated text totaled in the tens of millions of dollars in the last three years. The findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, seem to confirm what many in the book business feared: A.I. writing is now an inescapable fixture of the retail landscape.

Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Fascinating and thought-provoking essay by @vauhinivara.bsky.social on AI-generated literature—drawing on research by @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Jane Ginsburg, and @dhillonp.bsky.social. The piece includes an uncanny quiz (which I did terribly on) and a beautiful meditation on literature.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 8mo ago

People often dismiss A.I.-generated literature because they read books to access someone else’s consciousness. But what if they can’t tell the difference? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/GVKI7f

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 8mo ago

People often dismiss A.I.-generated literature because they read books to access someone else’s consciousness. But what if they can’t tell the difference? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/GVKI7f

What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

newyorkermag.visitlink.me

Tuhin Chakrabarty @tuhinchakr.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨New paper on AI & copyright Authors have sued LLM companies for using books w/o permission for model training. Courts however need empirical evidence of market harm. Our preregistered study exactly addresses this gap. Joint work w Jane Ginsburg from Columbia Law and @dhillonp.bsky.social 1/n🧵

PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 2y ago

When US newspapers adopt paywalls, their local news coverage tends to decline and, in markets with younger readers, paywalls also lead to an average increase in soft news—both trends that suggest economic incentives shape coverage choices. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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