Coral Hart

So I would kind of think that that on its own isn't quite enough.

That's what makes it so difficult, right?

Because you can find that in human writing too.

But it is, and this will sound wishy-washy, but I think people will...

know what they know what i mean if they've read large chunks of ai writing is that there's something that happens when you read ai generated text over a long like something as long as a novel is that there is just this like spidey sense you get about it of flatness it's just it's very emotionally one note there's very little variety in the texture of the prose

And yeah, it's a feeling.

It's a feeling where you sense literally a lack of mind behind the text.

In a way, yes, because it's possible.

I don't think it's possible for it to have happened without her noticing it.

I think she must have known about it if, if, if, if a third party did.

I mean, it sounds... Obviously, I have no idea.

It sounds unlikely that it was done by a third party.

If I had to nail my colours to the mask, I would think that probably it was her.

Obviously, I have no idea.

But that seems like Occam's razor, most likely.

But then it...

ought to have been picked up when it went through Hachette.

The problem with self-publishing to traditional publishing pipeline is that because the book is complete and also because the book has a proven audience already, editors are therefore, maybe reasonably, they take the book in and they think, well, not much needs to be done with this because it's a complete work already.

It might not be as rigorous an editing process as it would be if just an unpublished first draft came in on an editor's desk.

Another is that editors, unfortunately for everybody, including themselves, have less and less time for editing.