370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI

Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by 4thguy on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:39AM (#50424781)

I'm unsure where the line is drawn for LLM ect in the arts is supposed to be, but the article does say that she "heads an operation that has trained several hundred people in her method". So, let's take the LLM out of the question, is it fair to say that she is the author?

I'm not saying that authors should mine clay, hand-carve the letters on a clay tablet, and fire it up in a kiln that they built themselves; but authorship requires intent.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by mzajc on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:47AM (#50424859)

From the figure in the title, she spends under 2 days per book. That's from the start of her "career", so I assume the rate has been ramping up. This isn't enough time to read and review a book, let alone write one, so it would indeed be delusional to call her an author.

She figured out a way to make a quick buck off gullible and uncaring people, and a market that has not been thoroughly saturated with slop yet. There's not much more to it.

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