Bookish Diversions: Use AI, Lose Your Book Deal—and Maybe More
‘Shy Girl’ Canceled; Garbage Prose; AI Everywhere! or Is It? Training Data; More
Shy Girl retreats. Horror author Mia Ballard is facing horrors of her own after publisher Hachette decided to pull her novel Shy Girl from publication. Originally released last fall in the UK, where the book sold about 1,800 copies, Shy Girl was slated to hit U.S. shelves this spring. But after allegations began buzzing that Ballard used AI to write the…
