Alexandra Alter

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167 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 13 Feb

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And most of them have policies that they've always had, which is their authors have to assure them in their contracts that the work is original.

And what does that mean?

If AI wrote it, does that mean it's original?

Some of them say that's not original work, but if someone prompted it...

And they fed in their own ideas, then is it original?

So it gets into these really sort of thorny areas.

And I think there's also a copyright issue for publishers because stuff produced with AI cannot be copyrighted.

And publishers do not want to put out a book that they can't hold the copyright for.

My sense is that this is an area that they're not quite prepared for.

I'm going to take your notes.

Well, one flaw with that is in romance, in many genres, but in romance in particular, the authors have very close relationships with their audiences.

They have these almost parasocial relationships, all these forums online.

And so I think the self-published authors that succeed, one of the things that the publishers are buying is that sort of brand and the persona of

However, someone's definitely going to try it, and maybe it should be you, Kevin.

Yeah, I think, you know, most people were...

cautious about citing that as a concern.

They felt like, well, that's a different kind of activity.

It's more interactive.

It requires a lot of work, like reading a story is more passive.

But I'm not so sure.

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