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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style (futurism.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would suck for the author, Lena McDonald, if anyone who searched for

"Lena McDonald author"

found out about this story.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I get what you're doing but they can just change pennames

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They can, but that would at best be a hard reset on their reputation as an author, and unlikely to work long-term

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I think you are grossly overestimating the audience of this author. They are a "self published" author whose books are free and not read by many people.
If anything, she will see a massive spike in readers just because of curious people checking her out.