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[albie2]

The inevitable is upon us: A.I. is writing novels, and the publishing world is mostly unprepared.

Yesterday, Hachette canceled an upcoming horror book, “Shy Girl,” after The Times approached the publisher citing evidence that its author appears to have used A.I. to write it. The book has already been published in Britain, but will be discontinued there. (The author, Mia Ballard, denied using A.I. personally, and instead said that someone she hired to edit the book had used it.)

I was somewhat heartened to learn that eagle-eyed readers were among the first to suspect the use of A.I. in the book. Humanity can still be a bulwark, at least for now.