Alexandra Alter

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Hard Fork · ‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing · 13 Feb 2026 podcast

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

So the question that led to this story came up last year when OpenAI said that they would allow erotic content.

They were gonna make this change and start with age verification and then allow users to generate erotica, which is something that users had apparently been clamoring for.

And so then I started asking around to figure out whether romance authors and publishers were feeling threatened by this.

Was this something that they felt like might erode the market for traditionally published romance novels?

You know, if readers could instantly generate their own love stories.

And I was expecting to find a lot of hand-wringing and anxiety, which I did find.

But I was also surprised to find a few writers who were willing to speak to me about how much they love AI and how they've been using it

to churn out dozens of romance novels, and they feel like it could revolutionize the genre.

So that was a surprise to me because it's a very contentious issue in the literary world.

Most people, if they're using it, are not open about it.

And then the next question was, how good or bad is AI at writing sex and love stories?

And the answer was, it's pretty bad, and it requires a lot of help.

It's so interesting because there's different platforms that writers are using.

There's places like PseudoWrite.

Then there are these sites that will generate customized erotica like Red Quill or My Spicy Vanilla.

And then there's just sort of your general bots, you know, your Claude, your ChatGBT, Gemini.

And so writers have different tools that they're using.

But what I learned from talking to a couple of people was that

If you learn how to prompt the bot correctly, it will write a pretty compelling sex scene.

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