I’ve come across a couple of fascinating posts recently about the use of gen-AI from two highly respected editors and both say the same thing – people who use gen-AI are trying to cut corners and they lie about their usage of it. Often brazenly.

KJ Charles wrote this post about plagerism and gen-AI.

Mary Kole wrote this post about charging more for gen-AI books because they are souless.

“Plagiarists lie. They lie fluently, habitually, and (very significantly) to themselves. And I see a lot of similarities between your hand-crafted artisan plagiarist and people who use the plagiarism machine. When I see someone insist that ‘crafting’ (amazing verb choice) a GenAI prompt is creative work on a par with writing a novel, such that their AI-generated text is human authored really, it sounds functionally identical to plagiarist self-justification at work. Plagiarists lie, and the plagiarism machine industry is built on lies.” KJ Charles.

“In essence, the clients who’d hired me had outsourced their creative expression first to AI, and then to me, the human implicitly tasked with bridging the gap. Instead of simply evaluating execution, I found myself making authorial decisions: reshaping emotional arcs, deepening characterization, stripping back thematic overstatements, and rebuilding character interiority so it sounded like a distinct voice rather than a statistically probable Everyman.” Mary Kole.