Alexandra Alter

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

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

I feel like, you know, there's this app called Janitor AI.

I don't know if you all have seen this.

It's a

And it's one of the most popular apps in the book section on the store.

So it's clearly going for Romantasy readers.

So there is this sense that AI is encroaching, I think, really clearly into the territory of romance and what it's delivering for readers.

And I do think that is a risk, yeah.

Okay.

All right.

So as I was reading through several of these AI-generated romance novels, I was commuting to work and looking at one on my phone, and I read this phrase, the hero and the heroine are in the throes of passion, and he whispers her name like a ragged prayer.

And I was like, wait, what?

I must have gone back to the other book I was just reading.

I just read that exact thing.

And I flipped back and forth and I realized that phrase was in several of the books and repeatedly within the same books.

Whenever the hero says her name, he says it like a ragged prayer or sometimes like a jagged prayer or sometimes like a rough prayer.

And so then I asked a couple of writers who I knew were using AI, like, what is this ragged prayer?

And one of them said, I've actually had to block that phrase.

It loves to say ragged prayer.

Yeah.

Another one said, like, yeah, that's an AI-ism.

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